Speech recordings are a rich source of personal, sensitive data that can be used to support
a plethora of diverse applications, from health profiling to biometric recognition. It is therefore …

Mounting privacy legislation calls for the preservation of privacy in speech technology,
though solutions are gravely lacking. While evaluation campaigns are long-proven tools to …

Internet-connected devices, such as smartphones, smartwatches, and laptops, have become
ubiquitous in modern life, reaching ever deeper into our private spheres. Among the sensors …

Privacy preservation and the protection of speech data is in high demand, not least as a
result of recent regulation, eg the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU …

Speech is one of the most private forms of communication. People do not like to be
eavesdropped on. They will frequently even object to being recorded; in fact, in many places …

The proliferation of speech technologies and rising privacy legislation calls for the
development of privacy preservation solutions for speech applications. These are essential …

The author of this book–an updated version of her Ph. D. dissertation at the Catholic
University of Leuven in Belgium–is clearly no stranger in the world of biometrics and …

Privacy-enhancing technologies are technologies that implement fundamental data
protection principles. With respect to biometric recognition, different types of privacy …

Systems employing biometric traits for people authentication and identification are
witnessing growing popularity due to the unique and indissoluble link between any …

Anonymisation has the goal of manipulating speech signals in order to degrade the
reliability of automatic approaches to speaker recognition, while preserving other aspects of …