Forget who you Forgot: Speaker Unlearning to Prevent Re-Identification in Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech

arXiv:2609.27399 · cs.SD, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

cs.SD, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Terminology

• Steering — 49× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Steering — 11× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• GRPO — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Acoustic Metric — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Flow Matching — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers
• F5-TTS: A Fairytaler that Fakes Fluent and Faithful Speech with Flow Matching
• CosyVoice 2: Scalable Streaming Speech Synthesis with Large Language Models
• Do Not Mimic My Voice: Speaker Identity Unlearning for Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech
• Erasing Your Voice Before It's Heard: Training-free Speaker Unlearning for Zero-shot Text-to-Speech
• Continual Speaker Identity Unlearning with Minimal Interference
• EmoSteer-TTS: Fine-Grained and Training-Free Emotion-Controllable Text-to-Speech via Activation Steering
• Activation Steering for Accent-Neutralized Zero-Shot Text-To-Speech
• Seed-TTS: A Family of High-Quality Versatile Speech Generation Models
• F5R-TTS: Improving Flow-Matching based Text-to-Speech with Group Relative Policy Optimization
• GLASS: GRPO-Trained LoRA for Acoustic Style Steering in Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech
• Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization
• LibriTTS: A Corpus Derived from LibriSpeech for Text-to-Speech
• FireRedTTS: A Foundation Text-To-Speech Framework for Industry-Level Generative Speech Applications
• UTMOS: UTokyo-SaruLab System for VoiceMOS Challenge 2022

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