Listen to Emmanuel Vincent, the project coordinator of COMPRISE, Nathalie Vauquier, the engineer in charge of Inria’s software development in COMPRISE, and Brij Srivastava, a young researcher who has joined Inria Startup Studio on October 1, 2021, to create a startup exploiting the results of the project. https://www.inria.fr/en/podcast-comprise-privacy-friendly-inclusive-voice-interface
The joint efforts of the COMPRISE consortium continue bearing results as the COMPRISE solutions are used in an E-Commerce app created by our partner Netfective Technology. This app demonstrates for companies that wish to expand their customer base beyond a single language the possibilities of adding privacy aware multilingual voice…
The joint efforts of the COMPRISE consortium continue bearing results as the COMPRISE solutions are used in E-Health apps created by our partner TILDE. These two apps demonstrate the possibility for companies that support medical institutions to add privacy aware multilingual voice enabled features cost efficiently using the COMPRISE solution….
The joint efforts of the COMPRISE consortium continue bearing results as the COMPRISE are used in consumer apps created by our partner Ascora GmbH. These three apps demonstrate the possibility for software developing companies and freelance developers to add privacy aware multilingual voice enabled features cost efficiently using the COMPRISE…
The sixth COMPRISE plenary meeting was held on October 21, 2021 remotely and on location at Saarbrücken. We were thrilled to welcome seven Advisory Board members from ELDA, CrossLang, DATAMED, FVLLMONTI, /e/OS, CNIL & CHRU-Lille.
COMPRISE has just published an article titled “Data labelling: the hidden cost of voice-enabled technologies” in Technology.org This article talks about the methods used, so that a computer can understand speech. Click here to read the article!
COMPRISE has just published an article titled “Anonymisation and Re-Identification Risk for Voice Data” in Volume 7 (2021), Issue 2 of the European Data Protection Law Review (EDPL). This article talks in-depth about the challenges of anonymising voice data in relation to the GDPR. It focuses on the automatic anonymisation…
COMPRISE has just published an article titled “Enabling Voice-Based Apps with European Values” in the 126th issue of the ERCIM News magazine. This article gives a brief introduction to the challenges, and our solutions, in preserving user privacy while maintaining the usability of dialogue data. Click here to read the…
The fifth COMPRISE plenary meeting was held remotely on June 28, 2021. We were thrilled to welcome the following advisory board members: Gaël Duval (e.foundation) Johannes Fischer (Fraunhofer IIS, SPEAKER Project) Tom Vanallemeersch (ELRC Project) Georgeta Bordea and Jean-Luc Rouas (FVLLMONTI Project)
The joint efforts of the COMPRISE consortium continue bearing results as the COMPRISE Speech-to-Text Translation has been released by our partner TILDE. The COMPRISE Speech-to-Text Translation combines Speech-to-Text and Machine Translation in a smart manner in order to allow a user to speak his/her own language when interacting with a…
COMPRISE has provided input to the European Data Protection Board’s (EDPB) consultation on its draft guidelines on virtual assistants (“Guidelines 02/2021 on Virtual Voice Assistants”) published on 9th March, 2021. Check at the following link the comments provided by COMPRISE! https://edpb.europa.eu/sites/default/files/webform/public_consultation_reply/edpb_feedback_by_comprise.pdf
COMPRISE has just published an article titled “The accent gap problem in minorities and dialect speakers” in Technology.org Click here to read the article!
The joint efforts of the COMPRISE consortium continue bearing results as the COMPRISE Weakly Supervised Speech-to-Text (STT) and COMPRISE Weakly Supervised Natural Language Understanding (NLU) Tools have been released have been released. The COMPRISE Weakly Supervised STT and COMPRISE Weakly Supervised NLU are innovative software tools for automatic data transcription…
The joint efforts of the COMPRISE consortium continue bearing results as the COMPRISE Cloud Platform has been released. The COMPRISE Cloud Platform, developers can manage multilingual speech and text data and models to create multilingual, voice-enabled applications in a faster, cost-effective, privacy-driven way. Check our press-release about our released tool!
The fourth COMPRISE plenary meeting was held remotely on January 12, 2021. We were thrilled to welcome the following advisory board members: Paul Andrey (CHU de Lille) Victoria Arranz (ELDA/ELRA) Kaspars Grosu (DATAMED)
Emmanuel Vincent (COMPRISE’s Project Coordinator) has just published an article titled “”Peut-on faire confiance aux IA ?” (the translation in English is “Can AI systems be trusted?”) in The Conversation. Read it at the following link!
Voice technologies are being used in fields as diverse as medicine and education, but also for pure leisure. This article offers an overview of how categorisation and contextualisation can be used as methods not only to identify personal information but to design private-by-design voice-based solutions that intend to neutralise personal data and information/words that…
The joint efforts of the COMPRISE consortium continue bearing results as COMPRISE SDK has been released. With COMPRISE SDK, developers can create multilingual, voice-enabled applications in a faster, cost-effective, privacy-driven way. Check our press-release about our released tool!
The COMPRISE Voice Transformer and the COMPRISE Text Transformer protect both the voice of the users and their personal information. These software tools can be easily integrated into existing voice technologies, and provide developers with open source, validated, private-by-design tools. The development of privacy-enhancing technologies in Europe is a crucial step forward in ensuring the resilience…
The third COMPRISE plenary meeting was held remotely on June 03-04, 2020. We were thrilled to welcome the following advisory board members: Georg Rehm (META-NET) Fredrik Kronlid and Staffan Larsson (Talkamatic) Norbert Pfleger (Paragon Semvox) Eren Gölge (Mozilla)
We are co-organizing a special issue on Voice Privacy that solicits papers describing advances in privacy protection for speech processing systems, including theoretical developments, algorithms or systems. Examples of topics relevant to the special issue include (but are not limited to): formal models of speech privacy preservation, privacy-preserving speech feature extraction,…
Registration is still open to take part in the first international challenge on speech data privacy. The VoicePrivacy initiative is spearheading the effort to develop privacy preservation solutions for speech technology. It aims to gather a new community to define the most effective processes and metrics, while also benchmarking the existing privacy-enabling solutions and creating…
The second COMPRISE plenary meeting was held on December 05-06, 2019 in Bordeaux. We welcomed three advisory board members who are Frédéric Peak (DYDU), Mario Fritz (CISPA) and Kaspars Grosu (Children’s Clinical University Hospital, Riga).
The first COMPRISE plenary meeting was held on June 11-12, 2019 in Madrid. We welcomed three advisory board members who are Frédéric Peak (DYDU), Alice Coucke (Snips), and Félicien Vallet (CNIL). Plenary Meeting Agenda
COMPRISE had its kick-off meeting on January 24-25. The meeting was hosted by Inria in Paris. Agenda Press Release
