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This perspective calls for scholars across disciplines to address the challenge of audio deepfake detection and discernment through an interdisciplinary lens across Artificial Intelligence methods and linguistics. With an avalanche of tools…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Vandana P. Janeja , Christine Mallinson

The availability of smart devices leads to an exponential increase in multimedia content. However, advancements in deep learning have also enabled the creation of highly sophisticated Deepfake content, including speech Deepfakes, which pose…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Menglu Li , Yasaman Ahmadiadli , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Recent advances in speech synthesis and voice conversion have greatly improved the naturalness and authenticity of generated audio. Meanwhile, evolving encoding, compression, and transmission mechanisms on social media platforms further…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Daixian Li , Jun Xue , Yanzhen Ren , Zhuolin Yi , Yihuan Huang , Guanxiang Feng , Yi Chai

The development of technologies for easily and automatically falsifying video has raised practical questions about people's ability to detect false information online. How vulnerable are people to deepfake videos? What technologies can be…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Emilie Josephs , Camilo Fosco , Aude Oliva

With the rapid advancement of generative audio models, distinguishing between human-composed and generated music is becoming increasingly challenging. As a response, models for detecting fake music have been proposed. In this work, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tomasz Sroka , Tomasz Wężowicz , Dominik Sidorczuk , Mateusz Modrzejewski

As audio deepfakes transition from research artifacts to widely available commercial tools, robust biometric authentication faces pressing security threats in high-stakes industries. This paper presents a systematic empirical evaluation of…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Mengze Hong , Di Jiang , Zeying Xie , Weiwei Zhao , Guan Wang , Chen Jason Zhang

Speech synthesis systems can now produce highly realistic vocalisations that pose significant authenticity challenges. Despite substantial progress in deepfake detection models, their real-world effectiveness is often undermined by evolving…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Qizhou Wang , Hanxun Huang , Guansong Pang , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

Synthesizing voice with the help of machine learning techniques has made rapid progress over the last years [1] and first high profile fraud cases have been recently reported [2]. Given the current increase in using conferencing tools for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-04 Vanessa Barnekow , Dominik Binder , Niclas Kromrey , Pascal Munaretto , Andreas Schaad , Felix Schmieder

Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Voice Conversion (VC) models have exhibited remarkable performance in generating realistic and natural audio. However, their dark side, audio deepfake poses a significant threat to both society and individuals.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xinfeng Li , Kai Li , Yifan Zheng , Chen Yan , Xiaoyu Ji , Wenyuan Xu

As speech generation technology advances, the risk of misuse through deepfake audio has become a pressing concern, which underscores the critical need for robust detection systems. However, many existing speech deepfake datasets are limited…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Wen Huang , Yanmei Gu , Zhiming Wang , Huijia Zhu , Yanmin Qian

Thanks to advancements in deep learning, speech generation systems now power a variety of real-world applications, such as text-to-speech for individuals with speech disorders, voice chatbots in call centers, cross-linguistic speech…

The rapid advancement of deepfake technology poses a significant threat to digital media integrity. Deepfakes, synthetic media created using AI, can convincingly alter videos and audio to misrepresent reality. This creates risks of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Kashish Gandhi , Prutha Kulkarni , Taran Shah , Piyush Chaudhari , Meera Narvekar , Kranti Ghag

We show how replay attacks undermine audio deepfake detection: By playing and re-recording deepfake audio through various speakers and microphones, we make spoofed samples appear authentic to the detection model. To study this phenomenon in…

Thanks to recent advances in deep learning, sophisticated generation tools exist, nowadays, that produce extremely realistic synthetic speech. However, malicious uses of such tools are possible and likely, posing a serious threat to our…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Alessandro Pianese , Davide Cozzolino , Giovanni Poggi , Luisa Verdoliva

Audio has become an increasingly crucial biometric modality due to its ability to provide an intuitive way for humans to interact with machines. It is currently being used for a range of applications, including person authentication to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Rishabh Ranjan , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

Recent advances in Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have substantially increased the realism of synthetic speech, raising new challenges for audio deepfake detection. This work presents a comparative evaluation of three state-of-the-art TTS…

Audio deepfakes are increasingly in-differentiable from organic speech, often fooling both authentication systems and human listeners. While many techniques use low-level audio features or optimization black-box model training, focusing on…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Kevin Warren , Daniel Olszewski , Seth Layton , Kevin Butler , Carrie Gates , Patrick Traynor

Recent progress in generative AI has made it increasingly easy to create natural-sounding deepfake speech from just a few seconds of audio. While these tools support helpful applications, they also raise serious concerns by making it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Xi Xuan , Yang Xiao , Rohan Kumar Das , Tomi Kinnunen

Audio deepfakes represent a growing threat to digital security and trust, leveraging advanced generative models to produce synthetic speech that closely mimics real human voices. Detecting such manipulations is especially challenging under…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Andrea Di Pierno , Luca Guarnera , Dario Allegra , Sebastiano Battiato

Current audio deepfake detectors cannot be trusted. While they excel on controlled benchmarks, they fail when tested in the real world. We introduce Perturbed Public Voices (P$^{2}$V), an IRB-approved dataset capturing three critical…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Chongyang Gao , Marco Postiglione , Isabel Gortner , Sarit Kraus , V. S. Subrahmanian