SPARC: Spoken Profile Authorship Recognition Corpus
cs.CL
Submitted: 2026-10-18
Updated: 2026-10-18
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: Speech anonymization has focused on the acoustic signal, leaving open how much speaker information the transcribed words themselves retain.
Abstract
Speech anonymization has focused on the acoustic signal, leaving open how much speaker information the transcribed words themselves retain. In this work, we study pairwise speaker and demographic-attribute verification from transcribed speech. We introduce SPARC (Spoken Profile Authorship Recognition Corpus), a benchmark built from two podcast corpora comprising over 12,500 speakers, 1.5M quality-filtered utterances, and speaker-level inferred or source-provided labels for sex, age, and accent, and evaluate five attribution models and three LLMs on identity- and attribute-verification trials with episode- and metadata-based topic proxies. LLM adversaries distinguish same-speaker pairs from text alone. Attribute-label agreement is harder to verify, but LLMs perform sex- and accent-label verification above chance. Finally, releasing only short probe texts (50 words) degrades the strongest adversaries the most, offering a partial reduction in observed linkage.
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