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?
Trying to avoid getting deep faked or why, explicitly, and what do you want the ML to produce? Interesting question btw