Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Speaker identity and content de-identification
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Application No.: US16860840Application Date: 2020-04-28
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Publication No.: US11217223B2Publication Date: 2022-01-04
- Inventor: Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis , Xu Wang , Paul R. Bastide , Rohit Ranchal
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Sherman IP LLP
- Agent Kenneth L. Sherman; Hemavathy Perumal
- Main IPC: G10L17/00
- IPC: G10L17/00 ; G10L13/00 ; G10L15/18 ; G10L17/02 ; G10L15/26

Abstract:
One embodiment of the invention provides a method for speaker identity and content de-identification under privacy guarantees. The method comprises receiving input indicative of privacy protection levels to enforce, extracting features from a speech recorded in a voice recording, recognizing and extracting textual content from the speech, parsing the textual content to recognize privacy-sensitive personal information about an individual, generating de-identified textual content by anonymizing the personal information to an extent that satisfies the privacy protection levels and conceals the individual's identity, and mapping the de-identified textual content to a speaker who delivered the speech. The method further comprises generating a synthetic speaker identity based on other features that are dissimilar from the features to an extent that satisfies the privacy protection levels, and synthesizing a new speech waveform based on the synthetic speaker identity to deliver the de-identified textual content. The new speech waveform conceals the speaker's identity.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210335337A1 SPEAKER IDENTITY AND CONTENT DE-IDENTIFICATION Public/Granted day:2021-10-28
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