Projet PSST (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Joint Doctorates
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The unabated rise of smart speech technology, much of which is operated by entities outside of the European Union, has revolutionised consumer access to information and applications using the most convenient interface of all - the human voice. Recently, however, we have come to understand that smart speakers, smartwatches and other voice-operated devices may expose their users to privacy risks. Service operators and hackers alike can access not only spoken words but may also exploit sensitive non-lexical information contained within speech signals (such as health status) for nefarious purposes without the users’ knowledge or consent. However, innovative privacy-preserving smart speech technologies may mitigate these risks and help to create sustainable business models that are well aligned with EU regulations such as the GDPR and the forthcoming EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. Therefore, the PSST joint doctoral training network will train a new cohort of researchers to develop these urgently-needed technologies using cutting-edge deep learning methods. PSST will focus on the suppression of speaker traits in speech signals, on enhancing usability in interactions between smart devices and cloud services, and on novel evaluation schemes that consider the most relevant threats. The PSST consortium is composed of world-leading research labs in speech processing, privacy and usability, and a larger number of innovative industrial partners. The joint academic-industrial partnership will establish a high-impact training programme that provides doctoral researchers with expertise in speech processing, machine learning and comprehensive knowledge of privacy threats and privacy-enhancing technologies. PSST partners and researchers will jointly create not only a unique, user-centred view of smart speech technologies but will also promote innovative business models for responsible and sustainable privacy-aware technologies in the EU.

Mots clés : privacy in speech communication, speech processing, machine learning

Participants :
- Evaluations and language resources distribution agency (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Aalto (Finlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 859464.0 €
- Vocapia Research (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Sorbonne Université (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Voicemod inc. sucursal en españa (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Naver France (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Voiceinteraction – tecnologias de processamento da fala, sa (Portugal) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université technique de Berlin (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 521078.4 €
- Université de la Ruhr à Bochum (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 521078.4 €
- Loihde advisory oy (Finlande) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 565387.2 €
- EURECOM (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 565387.2 €
- Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Ki elements gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Radboud de Nimègue (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 548740.8 €
- Université de Lisbonne (Portugal) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Omilia monoprosopi etaireia periorismenis efthynis paroxis pliroforikon, tilepikoinoniakon kai fonitikon ypiresion kai systimaton (Grèce) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 486806.4 €
- Orange (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Voice inter connect gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Lorraine (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €