Speaker anonymisation using the McAdams coefficient

Patino, Jose; Todisco, Massimiliano; Nautsch, Andreas; Evans, Nicholas
Research Report RR-20-343, 28 February 2020

This report presents an alternative to speaker anonymisation that does
not require external training data and is based on a single processing block
using basic signal processing techniques. The proposed method employs
the McAdams coefficient to apply a slight contraction/expansion to the poles
derived from linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficients of speech content
on a frame-by-frame basis, consequently leading to a transformation of the
related formants.

Type:
Report
Date:
2020-02-28
Department:
Digital Security
Eurecom Ref:
6190
Copyright:
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