International Audio Laboratories Erlangen

Publications

  1. Anna Leschanowsky, Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu, and Nils Peters
    Voice Anonymization for All — Bias Evaluation of the Voice Privacy Challenge Baseline System
    In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2024, 2024. DOI 
    @inproceedings{leschanowsky2023voice,
title={Voice Anonymization for All -- Bias Evaluation of the Voice Privacy Challenge Baseline System},
author={Anna Leschanowsky and Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu and Nils Peters},
year={2024},
booktitle={Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2024}
doi={10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447137}
}
  2. Anjana Rajasekhar, Anna Leschanowsky and Nils Peters
    Towards Speech Privacy Assessment for Voice Assistants: Exploring Subjective and Objective Measures for Babble Noise. Best Student Paper Award
    In Proc. of the 35th Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing (ESSV), 2024. DOI 
    @inproceedings{rajasekhar2024speechprivacy,
title={Towards Speech Privacy Assessment for Voice Assistants: Exploring Subjective and Objective Measures for Babble Noise.  Best Student Paper Award },
author={Anjana Rajasekhar, Anna Leschanowsky and Nils Peters},
year={2024},
booktitle={Proc. of the 35th Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing (ESSV)}
doi = {10.35096/othr/pub-7088}
}
  3. Zahra Kolagar, Anna Leschanowsky, Birgit Popp
    Experts-in-the-Loop:Establishing an Effective Workflow in Crafting Privacy Q&A
    In Conversations 2023, 2023. 
    @inproceedings{ConversationalPrivacy2023,
author = {Zahra Kolagar, Anna Leschanowsky, Birgit Popp},
title = {Experts-in-the-Loop:Establishing an Effective Workflow in Crafting Privacy Q&A}
booktitle = {Conversations 2023},
year = {2023},
month = {nov},
}
  4. Anna Leschanowsky, Birgit Popp and Nils Peters
    Privacy Strategies for Conversational AI and their Influence on Users’ Perceptions and Decision-Making
    In Proc. of the European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC), 2023. DOI 
    @inproceedings{ConversationalPrivacy2023,
author = {Anna Leschanowsky, Birgit Popp and Nils Peters},
title = {Privacy Strategies for Conversational AI and their Influence on Users’ Perceptions and Decision-Making},
booktitle = {Proc. of the European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC)},
year = {2023},
month = {oct},
doi = {10.1145/3617072.3617106}
}
  5. Casandra Rusti, Anna Leschanowsky, Carolyn Quinlan, Michaela Pnacekova, Lauriane Gorce, Wiebke Hutiri
    Benchmark Dataset Dynamics, Bias and Privacy Challenges in Voice Biometrics Research
    In 2023 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), 2023. DOI 
    @inproceedings{FairEVA2023,
author = {Casandra Rusti, Anna Leschanowsky, Carolyn Quinlan, Michaela Pnacekova, Lauriane Gorce, Wiebke Hutiri},
title = {Benchmark Dataset Dynamics, Bias and Privacy Challenges in Voice Biometrics Research},
booktitle = {2023 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)},
year = {2023},
month = {sep},
doi = {10.1109/IJCB57857.2023.10449225}
}
  6. Anna Leschanowsky, Birgit Popp and Nils Peters
    Debiasing Strategies for Conversational AI: Improving Privacy and Security Decision- Making
    In Digital Society, 2023. DOI 
    @inproceedings{Debiasing2023,
author = {Anna Leschanowsky, Birgit Popp and Nils Peters},
title = {Debiasing Strategies for Conversational AI: Improving Privacy and Security Decision-
Making},
booktitle = {Digital Society},
year = {2023},
month = {sep},
doi = {10.1007/s44206-023-00062-2}
}
  7. Alessandra Zarcone and Anna Leschanowsky
    Moderne Sprachassistenten zwischen Datenhunger und Datenschutz
    In Künstliche Intelligenz und menschliche Gesellschaft, 2023. DOI 
    @inproceedings{ZarconeKI2023,
author = {Alessandra Zarcone and Anna Leschanowsky},
title = {Moderne Sprachassistenten zwischen Datenhunger und Datenschutz},
booktitle = {Künstliche Intelligenz und menschliche Gesellschaft},
editor = {László Kovács},
publisher = {De Gruyter Oldenbourg},
isbn = {9783111034706},
year = {2023},
month = {july},
lastchecked = {2023-06-13},
doi = {10.1515/9783111034706-012}
}
  8. Anna Leschanowsky, Birgit Popp, Nils Peters
    Uncertain yet rational - Uncertainty as an Evaluation Measure of Rational Privacy Decision-Making in Conversational AI
    In Proc. of the 25th International Conference On Human-Computer Interaction, 2023. DOI 
    @inproceedings{LeschanowskyHCII2023,
author = {Anna Leschanowsky, Birgit Popp, Nils Peters},
booktitle = {Proc. of the 25th International Conference On Human-Computer Interaction},
title = {Uncertain yet rational - Uncertainty as an Evaluation Measure of Rational Privacy Decision-Making in Conversational AI},
year = {2023},
month = {july},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-35921-7_14}}
  9. Abdullah Elbi, Anna Leschanowsky, Pierre Lison, Andreas Nautsch, Olga Ohrimenko, Laurens Sion and Marc Tommasi
    Privacy Attacks
    In Privacy in Speech and Language Technology (Dagstuhl Seminar 22342), 2023. DOI 
    @inproceedings{DagstuhlPrivacyAttacks,
author = {Abdullah Elbi, Anna Leschanowsky, Pierre Lison, Andreas Nautsch, Olga Ohrimenko, Laurens Sion and Marc Tommasi},
title = {Privacy Attacks},
booktitle = {Privacy in Speech and Language Technology (Dagstuhl Seminar 22342)},
year = {2023},
month = {mar},
doi = {10.4230/DagRep.12.8.60}
}
  10. Zinaida Benenson, Abdullah Elbi, Zekeriya Erkin, Natasha Fernandes, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Ivan Habernal, Els Kindt, Anna Leschanowsky, Pierre Lison, Christina Lohr, Emily Mower Provost, Jo Pierson, David Stevens, Francisco Teixeira and Shomir Wilson
    Case studies and user interaction
    In Privacy in Speech and Language Technology (Dagstuhl Seminar 22342), 2023. DOI 
    @inproceedings{DagstuhlCaseStudies,
author = {Zinaida Benenson, Abdullah Elbi, Zekeriya Erkin, Natasha Fernandes, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Ivan Habernal, Els Kindt, Anna Leschanowsky, Pierre Lison, Christina Lohr, Emily Mower Provost, Jo Pierson, David Stevens, Francisco Teixeira, and Shomir Wilson},
title = {Case studies and user interaction},
booktitle = {Privacy in Speech and Language Technology (Dagstuhl Seminar 22342)},
year = {2023},
month = {mar},
doi = {10.4230/DagRep.12.8.60}
}
  11. Gaznepoglu, Ünal Ege, Leschanowsky, Anna, and Peters, Nils
    VoicePrivacy 2022 System Description: Speaker Anonymization with Feature-matched F0 Trajectories
    2022. DOI 
    @misc{gaznepoglu_voiceprivacy_2022,
title = {{VoicePrivacy} 2022 {System} {Description}: {Speaker} {Anonymization} with {Feature}-matched {F0} {Trajectories}},
copyright = {All rights reserved},
shorttitle = {{VoicePrivacy} 2022 {System} {Description}},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17338},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2210.17338},
abstract = {We introduce a novel method to improve the performance of the VoicePrivacy Challenge 2022 baseline B1 variants. Among the known deficiencies of x-vector-based anonymization systems is the insufficient disentangling of the input features. In particular, the fundamental frequency (F0) trajectories, which are used for voice synthesis without any modifications. Especially in cross-gender conversion, this situation causes unnatural sounding voices, increases word error rates (WERs), and personal information leakage. Our submission overcomes this problem by synthesizing an F0 trajectory, which better harmonizes with the anonymized x-vector. We utilized a low-complexity deep neural network to estimate an appropriate F0 value per frame, using the linguistic content from the bottleneck features (BN) and the anonymized x-vector. Our approach results in a significantly improved anonymization system and increased naturalness of the synthesized voice. Consequently, our results suggest that F0 extraction is not required for voice anonymization.},
urldate = {2022-11-02},
publisher = {arXiv},
author = {Gaznepoglu, Ünal Ege and Leschanowsky, Anna and Peters, Nils},
month = oct,
year = {2022},
keywords = {Computer Science - Cryptography and Security, Computer Science - Sound, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing},
}
  12. Leschanowsky, Anna, Popp, Birgit, and Peters, Nils
    Adapting Debiasing Strategies for Conversational AI
    In GoodBrother International Conference on Privacy-friendly and Trustworthy Technology for Society: 74, 2022. 
    @inproceedings{leschanowsky2022adapting,
title={Adapting Debiasing Strategies for Conversational AI},
author={Leschanowsky, Anna and Popp, Birgit and Peters, Nils},
booktitle={GoodBrother International Conference on Privacy-friendly and Trustworthy Technology for Society},
pages={74},
year={2022}
}
  13. Popp, Birgit, Lalone, Philip, and Leschanowsky, Anna
    Chatbot Language - crowdsource perceptions and reactions to dialogue systems to inform dialogue design decisions
    Behavior Research Methods, 2022. DOI 
    @article{article,
author = {Popp, Birgit and Lalone, Philip and Leschanowsky, Anna},
year = {2022},
month = {06},
pages = {},
title = {Chatbot Language - crowdsource perceptions and reactions to dialogue systems to inform dialogue design decisions},
journal = {Behavior Research Methods},
doi = {10.3758/s13428-022-01864-x}
}
  14. Leschanowsky, Anna, Brüggemeier, Birgit, and Peters, Nils
    Design Implications for Human-Machine Interactions from a Qualitative Pilot Study on Privacy
    In Proc. 2021 ISCA Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication, 2021. DOI 
    @inproceedings{inproceedings,
author = {Leschanowsky, Anna and Brüggemeier, Birgit and Peters, Nils},
year = {2021},
month = {11},
pages = {},
title = {Design Implications for Human-Machine Interactions from a Qualitative Pilot Study on Privacy},
doi = {10.21437/SPSC.2021-16},
booktitle={Proc. 2021 ISCA Symposium on Security and Privacy
in Speech Communication}
}
  15. Leschanowsky, Anna, Das, Sneha, Bäckström, Tom, and Pérez Zarazaga, Pablo
    Perception of Privacy Measured in the Crowd - Paired Comparison on the Effect of Background Noises
    In Proc. Interspeech 2020, 2020. DOI 
    @inproceedings{inproceedings,
author = {Leschanowsky, Anna and Das, Sneha and Bäckström, Tom and Pérez Zarazaga, Pablo},
year = {2020},
month = {11},
pages = {},
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2020},
title = {Perception of Privacy Measured in the Crowd - Paired Comparison on the Effect of Background Noises},
doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2299}
}
  16. Dick, Sascha, Zhang, Jiandong, Qin, Yili, Schinkel-Bielefeld, Nadja, Leschanowsky, Anna, and Nagel, Frederik
    On the influence of cultural differences on the perception of audio coding artifacts in music
    In Audio Engineering Society Convention 145, 2018. 
    @inproceedings{inproceedings,
author = {Dick, Sascha and Zhang, Jiandong and Qin, Yili and Schinkel-Bielefeld, Nadja and Leschanowsky, Anna and Nagel, Frederik},
year = {2018},
month = {10},
pages = {},
booktitle={Audio Engineering Society Convention 145},
title = {On the influence of cultural differences on the perception of audio coding artifacts in music}
}
  17. Schinkel-Bielefeld, Nadja, Zhang, Jiandong, Qin, Yili, Leschanowsky, Anna, and Fu, Shanshan
    Perception of Coding Artifacts by Nonnative Speakers - A Study with Mandarin Chinese and German Speaking Listeners
    Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 66: 60–70, 2018. DOI 
    @article{article,
author = {Schinkel-Bielefeld, Nadja and Zhang, Jiandong and Qin, Yili and Leschanowsky, Anna and Fu, Shanshan},
year = {2018},
month = {02},
pages = {60-70},
title = {Perception of Coding Artifacts by Nonnative Speakers - A Study with Mandarin Chinese and German Speaking Listeners},
volume = {66},
journal = {Journal of the Audio Engineering Society},
doi = {10.17743/jaes.2017.0042}
}
  18. Schinkel-Bielefeld, Nadja, Zhang, Jiandong, Qin, Yili, Leschanowsky, Anna, and Fu, Shanshan
    Is it Harder to Perceive Coding Artifacts in Foreign Language Items? –- A Study with Mandarin Chinese and German Speaking Listeners
    In Audio Engineering Society Convention 142, 2017. 
    @inproceedings{inproceedings,
author = {Schinkel-Bielefeld, Nadja and Zhang, Jiandong and Qin, Yili and Leschanowsky, Anna and Fu, Shanshan},
year = {2017},
month = {05},
pages = {},
booktitle={Audio Engineering Society Convention 142},
title = {Is it Harder to Perceive Coding Artifacts in Foreign Language Items? –- A Study with Mandarin Chinese and German Speaking Listeners}
}
  19. Schinkel-Bielefeld, Nadja and Leschanowsky, Anna
    How Much Is the Use of a Rating Scale by a Listener Influenced by Anchors and by the Listener's Experience?
    In Audio Engineering Society Convention 138, 2015. 
    @inproceedings{inproceedings,
author = {Schinkel-Bielefeld, Nadja and Leschanowsky, Anna},
year = {2015},
month = {05},
pages = {},
booktitle={Audio Engineering Society Convention 138},
title = {How Much Is the Use of a Rating Scale by a Listener Influenced by Anchors and by the Listener's Experience?}
}
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