Northern Kentucky University
Department of Computer Science

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Science in Computer Science

Scot Cunningham
will defend his MS thesis

PROTECTING PRIVACY IN RECORDED CONVERSATIONS

DATE: Thursday, Nov 15th
TIME: 9:00-10:15
LOCATION: ST 368A
Refreshments immediately following
Abstract
Professionals in the field of speech technology are often constrained by a lack of speech corpora that are important to their research and development activities. These corpora exist within the archives of various businesses and institutions; however, these entities are often prevented from sharing their data due to privacy rules and regulations. Efforts to "scrub" this data to make it shareable can result in data that has been either inadequately protected or data that has been rendered virtually unusable due to the loss resulting from suppression. This work attempts to address these issues by developing a scientific workflow that combines proven techniques in data privacy with controlled audio distortion resulting in corpora that have been adequately protected with minimal data loss.

Faculty, students, and the general public are invited.


Thesis Committee

Traian Marius Truta, Ph.D.
Committee Chair

Kevin G. Kirby, Ph.D.
Committee Member

Richard K. Fox, Ph.D.
Committee Member

Daniel J. Curtin, Ph.D.
Committee Member