Inference Attacks for X-Vector Speaker Anonymization
Published: May 13, 2025
Last Updated: May 13, 2025
Authors:Luke Bauer, Wenxuan Bao, Malvika Jadhav, Vincent Bindschaedler
Abstract
We revisit the privacy-utility tradeoff of x-vector speaker anonymization. Existing approaches quantify privacy through training complex speaker verification or identification models that are later used as attacks. Instead, we propose a novel inference attack for de-anonymization. Our attack is simple and ML-free yet we show experimentally that it outperforms existing approaches.