The growing use of voice user interfaces has led to a surge in the collection and storage of
speech data. While data collection allows for the development of efficient tools powering …

Voice conversion (VC) aims to convert the voice from a source speaker to a target speaker
without modifying the linguistic content. Zero-shot voice conversion has attracted significant …

AUTOVC is a voice-conversion method that performs self-reconstruction using an
autoencoder structure for zero-shot voice conversion. AUTOVC has the advantage of being …

Privacy and security are major concerns when communicating speech signals to cloud
services such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech emotion recognition …

This paper evaluates the impact of using TTS-based speaker anonymization with objective
and subjective methods. A pretrained automatic speaker verification (ASV) VGGVox model …

Two basic tasks are covered in this paper. The first one consists in the design and practical
testing of a new method for voice de-identification that changes the apparent age and/or …

In this paper, we investigate the impact of speech temporal dynamics in application to
automatic speaker verification and speaker voice anonymization tasks. We propose several …

This dissertation is concerned with mechanisms to protect the privacy of individuals in
special types of data that are sequential or directional in nature. Importantly, sequential data …

There is a growing demand toward digitization of various day-to-day work and hence, there
is a surge in use of Intelligent Personal Assistants. The extensive use of these smart digital …

Expressive voice conversion is to transform voice speech with emotional expression.
Modeling emotional styles in expressive voice conversion is challenging. It is essential to …