SPSC Symposium
4th Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication
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3rd VoicePrivacy Challenge
September 6th, as an INTERSPEECH SATELLITE EVENT
Submission is now open
Speech and voice are media through which we express ourselves. Speech communication can be used to command virtual assistants, to transport emotion or to identify oneself. How can we strengthen security and privacy for speech representation types in user-centric human/machine interaction?
Interdisciplinary exchange is in high demand. The need to better understand and develop user-centric security solutions and privacy safeguard in speech communication is of growing importance for commercial, forensic, and government applications. The SPSC Symposium is a platform to seek better designed services and products as well as better informed policy papers for legislators and governance. The symposium is organized by the ISCA SPSC special interest group and the VoicePrivacy Challenge Team.
Last year's Proceedings
The proceedings are available via the ISCA Archive.
The fourth 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.
The VoicePrivacy initiative is spearheading the effort to develop privacy preservation solutions for speech technology. It aims to consolidate the newly formed community to develop the task and metrics and to benchmark progress in anonymization solutions using common datasets, protocols, and metrics. VoicePrivacy takes the form of a competitive challenge. In keeping with the previous VoicePrivacy Challenge editions, the current edition focuses on voice anonymization. Participants are required to develop anonymization systems to suppress speaker identity while keeping the content and paralinguistic attributes intact. This edition focuses on preserving the emotional state, which is the key paralinguistic attribute in many real-world applications of voice anonymization. All the participants are encouraged to submit to the SPSC Symposium papers related to their challenge entry, as well as other scientific papers related to speaker anonymization and voice privacy. More details can be found on the VoicePrivacy Challenge webpage: https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/.
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.
Although, we aim for meeting all of you on-site, we also opt for virtual presentations during the symposium.
For on-side participants that also join the Interspeech 2024 please register via Interspeech, for remote or on-side participants that will only visit the SPSC Symposium please write a mail to ingo.siegert@ovgu.de
Proceedings
The proceedings are available at the ISCA ARCHIVE
Program
We are glad to announce the program, all times are Eastern European Summer Time, EEST:
Friday, September 6th 2024
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Arrival and coffee | |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Welcome from the organisers | |
| 10:00 - 11:15 | 5 SPSC talks, 4 in-person and 1 online
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| 11:15 - 11:40 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | 2 SPSC video talks
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| 12:10 - 12:40 | VPC Overview Natalia Tomashenko (session chair: Emmanuel Vincent) |
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| 12:40 - 13:10 | 2 VPC video talks
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| 13:10 - 14:00 | Lunch Break (Buffet included) | |
| 14:00 - 15:45 | 7 VPC video talks session chairs: Martha Larson and Candy Olivia Mawalim
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| 15:45 - 16:45 | Coffee break with Poster session
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| 16:45 - 17:00 | SIG's SPSC Townhall Meeting | |
| 19:00 - open | Social Event for on-site participants |
All time are given with respect to the UTC+03:00 zone. You can use a time zone converter to check the times in your time zone.
Dates
Paper submission opens
Long and short paper submission deadline and VoicePrivacy Challenge paper
Acceptance Notification (challenge paper)
Acceptance Notification (long and short paper)
Final (camera ready) paper submission
Symposium
Location
The Symposium is held at Astir Odysseus.
The Astir Odysseus Kos has four conference rooms with modern design, equipped with high-end technologies and as a result even the most demanding event can be organized. Our professional staff with years of experience will be by your side to offer expertise and advice always based on your desires.
In the following map you can see the Symposiums Location (1) and the Interspeech Location (2).
How to reach?
by Car:
It is approx 18 minutes driving distance from the Interspeech Kipriotis Hotels & Conference Center (KICC) to the Astir Odysseus hotel.
public transport:
According to google maps there is unfortunately now public transport available. So please try to share taxis to reach the destination.
Organizing Committee
Ingo SIEGERT, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Jennifer WILLIAMS, University of Southampton, UK
Sneha DAS, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Natalia TOMASHENKO, Inria, France
Nick EVANS, EURECOM, France
Program Committee
(alphabetical)
Ajinkya Kulkarni, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Nijta, France
Candy Olivia Mawalim, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
David Boyle, Imperial College London, UK
Emmanuel Vincent, Inria, France
Gerald Penn, University of Toronto, Canada
Hemlata Tak, Pindrop, USA
Ingo Siegert, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Jennifer Williams, University of Southampton, UK
Junichi Yamagishi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Korbinian Riedhammer, Nuremberg Institute of Technology, Germany
Lin Zhang, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Md Sahidullah, TCG CREST & Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), India
Natalia Tomashenko, Inria, France
Nick Evans, EURECOM, France
Pierre Champion, Inria, France
Sarina Meyer, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Sebastian Le Maguer, University of Helsinki, Finland
Simon King, University of Edinburgh, UK
Sneha Das, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Tim Polzehl, DFKI, Germany
Tom Bäckström, Aalto University, Finland
Xiaoxiao Miao, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
Xin Wang, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
You (Neil) Zhang, University of Rochester, USA
Ziqian Luo, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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