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A Study of F0 Modification for X-Vector Based Speech Pseudonymization Across Gender

@article{Champion2021ASO,
  title={A Study of F0 Modification for X-Vector Based Speech Pseudonymization Across Gender},
  author={Pierre Champion and Denis Jouvet and Anthony Larcher},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2021},
  volume={abs/2101.08478}
}
Speech pseudonymization aims at altering a speech signal to map the identifiable personal characteristics of a given speaker to another identity. In other words, it aims to hide the source speaker identity while preserving the intelligibility of the spoken content. This study takes place in the VoicePrivacy 2020 challenge framework, where the baseline system performs pseudonymization by modifying x-vector information to match a target speaker while keeping the fundamental frequency (F0… 
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