2 code implementations • 20 Feb 2023 • Tuan Nguyen, Salima Mdhaffar, Natalia Tomashenko, Jean-François Bonastre, Yannick Estève
This paper presents a study on the use of federated learning to train an ASR model based on a wav2vec 2. 0 model pre-trained by self supervision.
1 code implementation • 29 Nov 2022 • Paul-Gauthier Noé, Xiaoxiao Miao, Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi, Jean-François Bonastre, Driss Matrouf
The use of modern vocoders in an analysis/synthesis pipeline allows us to investigate high-quality voice conversion that can be used for privacy purposes.
1 code implementation • 14 May 2022 • Natalia Tomashenko, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Xin Wang, Emmanuel Vincent, Andreas Nautsch, Junichi Yamagishi, Nicholas Evans, Jose Patino, Jean-François Bonastre, Paul-Gauthier Noé, Massimiliano Todisco
The VoicePrivacy Challenge aims to promote the development of privacy preservation tools for speech technology by gathering a new community to define the tasks of interest and the evaluation methodology, and benchmarking solutions through a series of challenges.
1 code implementation • 23 Mar 2022 • Natalia Tomashenko, Xin Wang, Xiaoxiao Miao, Hubert Nourtel, Pierre Champion, Massimiliano Todisco, Emmanuel Vincent, Nicholas Evans, Junichi Yamagishi, Jean-François Bonastre
Participants apply their developed anonymization systems, run evaluation scripts and submit objective evaluation results and anonymized speech data to the organizers.
no code implementations • 7 Nov 2021 • Salima Mdhaffar, Jean-François Bonastre, Marc Tommasi, Natalia Tomashenko, Yannick Estève
The widespread of powerful personal devices capable of collecting voice of their users has opened the opportunity to build speaker adapted speech recognition system (ASR) or to participate to collaborative learning of ASR.
no code implementations • 6 Nov 2021 • Natalia Tomashenko, Salima Mdhaffar, Marc Tommasi, Yannick Estève, Jean-François Bonastre
This paper investigates methods to effectively retrieve speaker information from the personalized speaker adapted neural network acoustic models (AMs) in automatic speech recognition (ASR).
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2
1 code implementation • 1 Sep 2021 • Natalia Tomashenko, Xin Wang, Emmanuel Vincent, Jose Patino, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Paul-Gauthier Noé, Andreas Nautsch, Nicholas Evans, Junichi Yamagishi, Benjamin O'Brien, Anaïs Chanclu, Jean-François Bonastre, Massimiliano Todisco, Mohamed Maouche
We provide a systematic overview of the challenge design with an analysis of submitted systems and evaluation results.
1 code implementation • 8 Dec 2020 • Paul-Gauthier Noé, Mohammad Mohammadamini, Driss Matrouf, Titouan Parcollet, Andreas Nautsch, Jean-François Bonastre
In order to allow the user to choose which information to protect, we introduce in this paper the concept of attribute-driven privacy preservation in speaker voice representation.
2 code implementations • 30 Aug 2020 • Paul-Gauthier Noé, Jean-François Bonastre, Driss Matrouf, Natalia Tomashenko, Andreas Nautsch, Nicholas Evans
The proliferation of speech technologies and rising privacy legislation calls for the development of privacy preservation solutions for speech applications.
3 code implementations • 4 May 2020 • Natalia Tomashenko, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Xin Wang, Emmanuel Vincent, Andreas Nautsch, Junichi Yamagishi, Nicholas Evans, Jose Patino, Jean-François Bonastre, Paul-Gauthier Noé, Massimiliano Todisco
The VoicePrivacy initiative aims to promote the development of privacy preservation tools for speech technology by gathering a new community to define the tasks of interest and the evaluation methodology, and benchmarking solutions through a series of challenges.