Automated PII Detection and Redaction in Voice Transcripts Using Multimodal AI: A Framework for Compliance in Customer Service Analytics
摘要
The increasing use of AI in customer service introduces significant risks around the handling of sensitive information such as Social Security Numbers, credit card details, and medical identifiers. Traditional text-based redaction techniques, such as regex or NER, struggle with real-world challenges, including transcription errors, accents, and contextual ambiguity. This paper proposes a multimodal framework for automated personally identifiable information (PII) detection and redaction in voice transcripts. The framework integrates acoustic signals, speech-to-text transcripts, and contextual metadata to improve reliability in identifying sensitive data. A pipeline architecture is outlined where audio features complement textual cues, enabling real-time detection and redaction during streaming analytics. The methodology emphasizes conceptual design, qualitative analysis, and case-based reasoning, supplemented by a small-scale proof-of-concept validation on synthetic data demonstrating improved recall over text-only baselines. Illustrative scenarios in healthcare and financial services demonstrate the framework’s compliance benefits, highlighting its ability to reduce regulatory risk and strengthen customer trust. The proposed design supports enterprise-scale deployment.