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Towards Privacy-Preserving Fine-Tuning: Anonymization of Aphasic Speech for Effective ASR

2026 · International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation · pp. 5666-5676 · 0 citations · 43 references
Computer Science

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Fine-tuning on anonymized aphasic speech data improves ASR performance by 18 % compared to the performance of generic models on non-anonymized speech, and this gain in utility is achieved alongside substantial privacy protection.

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