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[P] Obscure speech recording while keeping data useful for machine learning (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by vladisser@alien.top to c/machinelearning@academy.garden

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Is there a way to obscure speech recording so there is no way to play it and get something intelligible, but still keep it useful for machine learning? For my project I have to collect data in uncontrolled environment, and I would like to do it without accidentally storing sensitive information.

It seems to be an uncommon problem, and I haven't found much. I am currently using spectrograms to extract features. For what I have found, making a spectrogram from a soundwave uses STFT and doesn't store phase information, so there is not enough information to perform the inverse transformation. Do I understand this correctly? What are other ways to do it?

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[–] RedwoodsCool@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

The only data transformation which wouldn't be trivial to reverse is encryption. But you still need to trust yourself, the machine, the network, and everything in between to not leak the key or the data.

If you "obscure" the data enough, then it won't be useful. There's no solution to your problem as far as I can tell.