Less Stress, More Privacy: Stress Detection on Anonymized Speech of Air Traffic Controllers
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| author | Viswanathan, Janaki Blatt, Alexander Hagemann, Konrad Klakow, Dietrich |
| author_facet | Viswanathan, Janaki Blatt, Alexander Hagemann, Konrad Klakow, Dietrich |
| contents | Air traffic control (ATC) demands multi-tasking under time pressure with high consequences of an error. This can induce stress. Detecting stress is a key point in maintaining the high safety standards of ATC. However, processing ATC voice data entails privacy restrictions, e.g. the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law. Anonymizing the ATC voice data is one way to comply with these restrictions. In this paper, different architectures for stress detection for anonymized ATCO speech are evaluated. Our best networks reach a stress detection accuracy of 93.6% on an anonymized version of the Speech Under Simulated and Actual Stress (SUSAS) dataset and an accuracy of 80.1% on our anonymized ATC simulation dataset. This shows that privacy does not have to be an impediment in building well-performing deep-learning-based models. |
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| spellingShingle | Less Stress, More Privacy: Stress Detection on Anonymized Speech of Air Traffic Controllers Viswanathan, Janaki Blatt, Alexander Hagemann, Konrad Klakow, Dietrich Sound Computation and Language Audio and Speech Processing I.2.7; I.5.5 Air traffic control (ATC) demands multi-tasking under time pressure with high consequences of an error. This can induce stress. Detecting stress is a key point in maintaining the high safety standards of ATC. However, processing ATC voice data entails privacy restrictions, e.g. the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law. Anonymizing the ATC voice data is one way to comply with these restrictions. In this paper, different architectures for stress detection for anonymized ATCO speech are evaluated. Our best networks reach a stress detection accuracy of 93.6% on an anonymized version of the Speech Under Simulated and Actual Stress (SUSAS) dataset and an accuracy of 80.1% on our anonymized ATC simulation dataset. This shows that privacy does not have to be an impediment in building well-performing deep-learning-based models. |
| title | Less Stress, More Privacy: Stress Detection on Anonymized Speech of Air Traffic Controllers |
| topic | Sound Computation and Language Audio and Speech Processing I.2.7; I.5.5 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08882 |