Evaluation Of The Speech Resynthesis Capabilities Of The Voiceprivacy Challenge Baseline B1

Abstract

Speaker anonymization systems continue to improve their ability to obfuscate the original speaker characteristics in a speech signal, but often create processing artifacts and unnatural sounding voices as a tradeoff. Many of those systems stem from the VoicePrivacy Challenge (VPC) Baseline B1, using a neural vocoder to synthesize speech from an F0, x-vectors and bottleneck features-based speech representation. Inspired by this, we investigate the reproduction capabilities of the aforementioned baseline, to assess how successful the shared methodology is in synthesizing human-like speech. We use four objective metrics to measure speech quality, waveform similarity, and F0 similarity. Our findings indicate that both the speech representation and the vocoder introduces artifacts, causing an unnatural perception. A MUSHRA-like listening test on 18 subjects corroborate our findings, motivating further research on the analysis and synthesis components of the VPC Baseline B1.

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