Exploring Cross-Lingual Voice Conversion Methods for Anonymizing Low-Resource Text-to-Speech (2026.eacl-short)
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| Challenge: | a growing number of speech synthesis systems clone a person's voice, a new study finds . a variety of voice conversion techniques can mask speaker identities in low-resource text-to-speech systems. |
| Approach: | They compare voice conversion techniques to mask speaker identities in text-to-speech systems . they build and evaluate speaker-anonymized systems for two Canadian Indigenous languages . |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods are compared with other approaches for using voice conversion to mask speaker identities in low-resource text-to-speech systems. |
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