학술논문

Salt: Distinguishable Speaker Anonymization Through Latent Space Transformation
Document Type
Conference
Source
2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU) Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 2023 IEEE. :1-8 Dec, 2023
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Measurement
Data privacy
Extrapolation
Speech coding
Vocoders
Conferences
Transforms
voice privacy
speaker anonymization
voice conversion
speech synthesis
Language
Abstract
Speaker anonymization aims to conceal a speaker’s identity without degrading speech quality and intelligibility. Most speaker anonymization systems disentangle the speaker representation from the original speech and achieve anonymization by averaging or modifying the speaker representation. However, the anonymized speech is subject to reduction in pseudo speaker distinctiveness, speech quality and intelligibility for out-of-distribution speaker. To solve this issue, we propose SALT, a Speaker Anonymization system based on Latent space Transformation. Specifically, we extract latent features by a self-supervised feature extractor and randomly sample multiple speakers and their weights, and then interpolate the latent vectors to achieve speaker anonymization. Meanwhile, we explore the extrapolation method to further extend the diversity of pseudo speakers. Experiments on Voice Privacy Challenge dataset show our system achieves a state-of-the-art distinctiveness metric while preserving speech quality and intelligibility. Our code and demo is availible at github 1 . 1 https://github.com/BakerBunker/SALT