Introducing the VoicePrivacy Initiative
This addresses privacy concerns for users of speech technology, but it is incremental as it focuses on community building and benchmarking rather than novel solutions.
The VoicePrivacy initiative tackles the problem of privacy in speech technology by defining tasks and evaluation methods, and it reports objective results from two anonymization baselines in the 2020 challenge.
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. In this paper, we formulate the voice anonymization task selected for the VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge and describe the datasets used for system development and evaluation. We also present the attack models and the associated objective and subjective evaluation metrics. We introduce two anonymization baselines and report objective evaluation results.