Prosody-driven privacy-preserving dementia detection
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Author(s)
Woszczyk, Dominika
Aloufi, Ranya
Demetriou, Soteris
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Speaker embeddings extracted from voice recordings have been proven valuable for dementia detection. However, by their nature, these embeddings contain identifiable information which raises privacy concerns. In this work, we aim to anonymize embeddings while preserving the diagnostic utility for dementia detection. Previous studies rely on adversarial learning and models trained on the target attribute and struggle in limited-resource settings. We propose a novel approach that leverages domain knowledge to disentangle prosody features relevant to dementia from speaker embeddings without relying on a dementia classifier. Our experiments show the effectiveness of our approach in preserving speaker privacy (speaker recognition F1-score .01%) while maintaining high dementia detection score F1-score of 74% on the ADReSS dataset. Our results are also on par with a more constrained classifier-dependent system on ADReSSo (.01% and .66%), and have no impact on synthesized speech naturalness.
Date Issued
2024-09
Date Acceptance
2024-09-01
Citation
Interspeech 2024, 2024, pp.3035-3039
ISSN
2958-1796
Publisher
ISCA
Start Page
3035
End Page
3039
Journal / Book Title
Interspeech 2024
Copyright Statement
© Interspeech 2024. Woszczyk, D., Aloufi, R., Demetriou, S. (2024) Prosody-Driven Privacy-Preserving Dementia Detection. Proc. Interspeech 2024, 3035-3039, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2024-2137
Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2024-2137
Source
Interspeech 2024
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2024-09-01
Finish Date
2024-09-05
Coverage Spatial
Kos, Greece
Date Publish Online
2024-09-01