NPU-NTU System for Voice Privacy 2024 Challenge

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Main Authors: Yao, Jixun, Kuzmin, Nikita, Wang, Qing, Guo, Pengcheng, Ning, Ziqian, Guo, Dake, Lee, Kong Aik, Chng, Eng-Siong, Xie, Lei
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author Yao, Jixun
Kuzmin, Nikita
Wang, Qing
Guo, Pengcheng
Ning, Ziqian
Guo, Dake
Lee, Kong Aik
Chng, Eng-Siong
Xie, Lei
author_facet Yao, Jixun
Kuzmin, Nikita
Wang, Qing
Guo, Pengcheng
Ning, Ziqian
Guo, Dake
Lee, Kong Aik
Chng, Eng-Siong
Xie, Lei
contents Speaker anonymization is an effective privacy protection solution that conceals the speaker's identity while preserving the linguistic content and paralinguistic information of the original speech. To establish a fair benchmark and facilitate comparison of speaker anonymization systems, the VoicePrivacy Challenge (VPC) was held in 2020 and 2022, with a new edition planned for 2024. In this paper, we describe our proposed speaker anonymization system for VPC 2024. Our system employs a disentangled neural codec architecture and a serial disentanglement strategy to gradually disentangle the global speaker identity and time-variant linguistic content and paralinguistic information. We introduce multiple distillation methods to disentangle linguistic content, speaker identity, and emotion. These methods include semantic distillation, supervised speaker distillation, and frame-level emotion distillation. Based on these distillations, we anonymize the original speaker identity using a weighted sum of a set of candidate speaker identities and a randomly generated speaker identity. Our system achieves the best trade-off of privacy protection and emotion preservation in VPC 2024.
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spellingShingle NPU-NTU System for Voice Privacy 2024 Challenge
Yao, Jixun
Kuzmin, Nikita
Wang, Qing
Guo, Pengcheng
Ning, Ziqian
Guo, Dake
Lee, Kong Aik
Chng, Eng-Siong
Xie, Lei
Audio and Speech Processing
Speaker anonymization is an effective privacy protection solution that conceals the speaker's identity while preserving the linguistic content and paralinguistic information of the original speech. To establish a fair benchmark and facilitate comparison of speaker anonymization systems, the VoicePrivacy Challenge (VPC) was held in 2020 and 2022, with a new edition planned for 2024. In this paper, we describe our proposed speaker anonymization system for VPC 2024. Our system employs a disentangled neural codec architecture and a serial disentanglement strategy to gradually disentangle the global speaker identity and time-variant linguistic content and paralinguistic information. We introduce multiple distillation methods to disentangle linguistic content, speaker identity, and emotion. These methods include semantic distillation, supervised speaker distillation, and frame-level emotion distillation. Based on these distillations, we anonymize the original speaker identity using a weighted sum of a set of candidate speaker identities and a randomly generated speaker identity. Our system achieves the best trade-off of privacy protection and emotion preservation in VPC 2024.
title NPU-NTU System for Voice Privacy 2024 Challenge
topic Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04173