The article critiques the notion that a person's voice is a stable, unique biometric trace—termed a voiceprint—by reviewing historical, forensic, and technological evidence. It argues that voices are highly dynamic and context-dependent, and that the voiceprint metaphor misrepresents probabilistic speaker information as a fixed identity marker. The authors emphasize that speaker recognition should account for within-speaker variability, domain mismatch, and synthetic manipulation rather than rely on an assumed stable voiceprint.
By Tianle Yang, Cuiling Zhang, Chengzhe Sun, Siwei Lyu, Phil Rose
arXiv:2607. 21820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio deepfake detectors are trained to distinguish genuine speech from synthetic speech and often perform well on standard benchmarks.
By Daniyal Kabir Dar, Arun Ross
The paper introduces a two‑stage speech anonymization framework that preserves both linguistic content and acoustic identity. It replaces personally identifiable information using a generative editing model and applies a flow‑matching anonymization technique (F3‑VA) to create diverse, distinct anonymized speakers. The authors evaluate privacy with speaker verification metrics and utility by training ASR, TTS, and SER models from scratch, showing stronger privacy protection with minimal utility loss compared to existing baselines.
By Yunchong Xiao, Yuxiang Zhao, Ziyang Ma, Shuai Wang, Kai Yu, Jiachun Liao, Xie Chen
arXiv:2608.22196v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: While cascaded multi-talker ASR (MT-ASR) leverages state-of-the-art foundation models, its performance is often capped by speaker leakage during sepa...
By Hermann Yepdjio Nkouanga, Minwei Luo, Maggie Wigness, Suresh Singh
arXiv:2607. 03985v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advanced neural technologies in speech synthesis and voice conversion (VC) have introduced severe risks to personal privacy, necessitating robust Speaker Anonymization Systems (SAS).
By Meiying Melissa Chen, Anastasia Kuznetsova, Zhenyu Wang, Zhiyao Duan
arXiv:2603.07551v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Recent zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems can clone previously unseen voices from only a few seconds of audio. We formulate Speech Genera...
By Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Thanapat Trachu, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Shrikanth Narayanan