Adversarial representation learning for private speech generationDownload PDF

Published: 02 Jul 2020, Last Modified: 22 Oct 2023SAS 2020Readers: Everyone
Keywords: adversarial networks, representation learning, speech, audio, privacy
TL;DR: In this work we study privacy in speech data with adversarial representation learning by generating synthetic sensitive attributes such as gender.
Abstract: As more data is collected in various settings across organizations, companies, and countries, there has been an increase in the demand of user privacy. Developing privacy preserving methods for data analytics is thus an important area of research. In this work we present a model based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) that learns to obfuscate specific sensitive attributes in speech data. We train a model that learns to hide sensitive information in the data, while preserving the meaning in the utterance. The model is trained in two steps: first to filter sensitive information in the spectrogram domain, and then to generate new and private information independent of the filtered one. The model is based on a U-Net CNN that takes mel-spectrograms as input. A MelGAN is used to invert the spectrograms back to raw audio waveforms. We show that it is possible to hide sensitive information such as gender by generating new data, trained adversarially to maintain utility and realism.
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