Voice Privacy with Smart Digital Assistants in Educational Settings
The emergence of voice-assistant devices ushers in delightful user experiences not just on the smart home front, but also in diverse educational environments from classrooms to personalized-learning/tutoring. However, the use of voice as an interaction modality also could result in exposure of user's identity, and hinders the broader adoption of voice interfaces; this is especially important in environments where children are present and their voice privacy needs to be protected. To this end, building on state-of-the-art techniques proposed in the literature, we design and evaluate a practical and efficient framework for voice privacy at the source. The approach combines speaker identification (SID) and speech conversion methods to randomly disguise the identity of users right on the device that records the speech, while ensuring that the transformed utterances of users can still be successfully transcribed by Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) solutions. We evaluate the ASR performance of the conversion in terms of word error rate and show the promise of this framework in preserving the content of the input speech.
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