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#1 Voice Guard: Protecting Voice Privacy with Strong and Imperceptible Adversarial Perturbation in the Time Domain [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi] [REL]

Authors: Jingyang Li, Dengpan Ye, Long Tang, Chuanxi Chen, Shengshan Hu

Adversarial example is a rising tool for voice privacy protection. By adding imperceptible noise to public audio, it prevents tampers from using zero-shot Voice Conversion (VC) to synthesize high quality speech with target speaker identity. However, many existing studies ignore the human perception characteristics of audio data, and it is challenging to generate strong and imperceptible adversarial audio. In this paper, we propose the Voice Guard defense method, which uses a novel method to advance the adversarial perturbation to the time domain to avoid the loss caused by cross-domain conversion. And the psychoacoustic model is introduced into the defense of VC for the first time, which greatly improves the disruption ability and concealment of adversarial audio. We also standardize the evaluation metrics of adversarial audio for the first time, combining multi-dimensional metrics to define the criteria for defense. We evaluate Voice Guard on several state-of-the-art zero-shot VC models. The experimental results show that our method can ensure the perceptual quality of adversarial audio while having a strong defense capability, and is far superior to previous works in terms of disruption ability and concealment.