AudioPrivacy: Parallel Audio Dataset for Speaker Profiling with Diverse Audio Types and Rich Attributes (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Speech signals convey abundant speaker-related metadata, yet current privacy research focuses on identity-centric voiceprint protection, leaving sensitive Speaker Attribute Privacy (SAP) underexplored. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale Chinese dataset to evaluate speaker-related privacy leakage . the dataset includes 227.3 hours of audio from 1,000 speakers . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model systematically evaluates speaker-related privacy leakage in everyday scenarios. |
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