PHONOS: PHOnetic Neutralization for Online Streaming Applications

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arXiv:2603.27001v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Speaker anonymization (SA) systems modify timbre while leaving regional or non-native accent cues intact, which is problematic because such cues can reveal a speaker's first-language or geographic background and narrow the anonymity set. To address this issue, we present PHONOS, a streaming module for real-time SA that performs accent neutralization in a privacy sense: reducing accent-origin cues by converting non-native segmental realiza