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PHONOS: PHOnetic Neutralization for Online Streaming Applications

arXiv机器学习 2026-03-28 05:24 6 阅读 查看原文

Speaker anonymization (SA) systems modify timbre while leaving regional or non-native accent cues intact, which is problematic because such cues can reveal a speaker's first-language or geographic background and narrow the anonymity set.

To address this issue, we present PHONOS, a streaming module for real-time SA that performs accent neutralization in a privacy sense: reducing accent-origin cues by converting non-native segmental realizations toward a chosen target accent domain.

Our approach pre-generates golden speaker utterances that preserve source timbre and rhythm but replace foreign segmentals with native ones using silence-aware DTW alignment and zero-shot voice conversion.

These utterances supervise a causal accent translator that maps non-native content tokens to native equivalents with at most 40ms look-ahead, trained using joint cross-entropy and CTC losses.

Our evaluations show an 81% reduction in non-native accent confidence, with listening-test accentedness ratings consistent with this shift.

PHONOS also moves outputs away from the original speaker in embedding space, suggesting lower linkability under an embedding-based proxy, while running with $\leq241\,\mathrm{ms}$ end-to-end latency on a single GPU.