The fifth edition of the Symposium on Security & Privacy in Speech Communication, focuses on speech and voice through which we express ourselves. As speech communication can be used to command virtual assistants to transport emotion or to identify oneself, the symposium encourages participants to give answers on how we can strengthen security and privacy for speech representation types in user-centric human/machine interaction? The symposium therefore sees that interdisciplinary exchange is in high demand and aims to bring together researchers and practitioners across multiple disciplines – more specifically: signal processing, cryptography, security, human-computer interaction, law, ethics, and anthropology. This symposium provides a venue for ongoing research stemming from the past successful workshops from the ISCA special interest group on Security & Privacy in Speech Communication (SPSC-SIG), where views of technological and humanities communities nurture one another to develop multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary skills.

For the general symposium, we welcome contributions to related topics, as well as progress reports, project dissemination, or theoretical discussions and “work in progress”. In addition, guests from academia, industry and public institutions as well as interested students are welcome to attend the conference without having to make their own contribution. In addition to the regular submissions, the participants of the VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge will be invited to submit the extended versions of their challenge contributions.

Although, we aim for meeting all of you on-site, we also opt for virtual presentations during the symposium.