Thomas Tsangaris
2024
Preset-Voice Matching for Privacy Regulated Speech-to-Speech Translation Systems
Daniel Platnick
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Bishoy Abdelnour
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Eamon Earl
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Rahul Kumar
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Zahra Rezaei
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Thomas Tsangaris
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Faraj Lagum
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing
In recent years, there has been increased demand for speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) systems in industry settings. Although successfully commercialized, cloning-based S2ST systems expose their distributors to liabilities when misused by individuals and can infringe on personality rights when exploited by media organizations. This work proposes a regulated S2ST framework called Preset-Voice Matching (PVM). PVM removes cross-lingual voice cloning in S2ST by first matching the input voice to a similar prior consenting speaker voice in the target-language. With this separation, PVM avoids cloning the input speaker, ensuring PVM systems comply with regulations and reduce risk of misuse. Our results demonstrate PVM can significantly improve S2ST system run-time in multi-speaker settings and the naturalness of S2ST synthesized speech. To our knowledge, PVM is the first explicitly regulated S2ST framework leveraging similarly-matched preset-voices for dynamic S2ST tasks.
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