Voice disguise in automatic speaker recognition

Humans are able to identify other people’s voices even in voice disguise conditions. However, we are not immune to all voice changes when trying to identify people from voice. Likewise, automatic speaker recognition systems can also be deceived by voice imitation and other types of disguise. Taking...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Farrús, Mireia
Format: Article
Status:Accepted version
Publication date:2018
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repository:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/35866
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35866
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3195832
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Speaker recognition
Voice disguise
Voice imitation
Voice conversion
Channel degradation
Robustness
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Summary:Humans are able to identify other people’s voices even in voice disguise conditions. However, we are not immune to all voice changes when trying to identify people from voice. Likewise, automatic speaker recognition systems can also be deceived by voice imitation and other types of disguise. Taking into account the voice disguise classification into the combination of two different categories (deliberate/non-deliberate and electronic/non-electronic), this survey provides a literature review on the influence of voice disguise in the automatic speaker recognition task and the robustness of these systems to such voice changes. Additionally, the survey addresses existing applications dealing with voice disguise and analyzes some issues for future research.