Speaker Anonymization: Protecting Voice Identity in the AI Era
Every time you speak to a voice assistant, attend a recorded meeting, or submit audio to a diagnostic tool, your voice reveals something deeply personal: your identity. Unlike a password, you cannot change your voice. This makes speaker anonymization — the task of modifying speech so a speaker cannot be identified, while keeping the content intact — one of the more important problems in applied AI privacy. Speaker diarization tells us who spoke and when. Speaker anonymization does the inverse — it ensures that even if someone has the audio, they cannot determine who it was. ...