Audio Deepfake Detection

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Audio deepfake detection asks whether a recording is genuine, synthetically generated, or partly manipulated, and can also locate altered regions or identify their source. Systems range from handcrafted spectral features and CNN or graph-based detectors to self-supervised speech encoders such as WavLM and XLS-R, with contrastive learning, domain adaptation, and mixtures of experts used to improve transfer. Benchmarks such as ASVspoof and In-the-Wild test speech detectors, while newer tasks cover partial speech edits, music, singing, and environmental sounds; audio-visual systems can also use synchronization and cross-modal consistency. A central challenge is that strong results on familiar, clean datasets often fail to transfer to unseen generators, languages, codecs, and real-world mixtures, making robustness, calibration, fairness, and realistic evaluation ongoing concerns.

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  1. ReplayFactor: Replay-Aware Dual-Attribute Learning for Practical Speech Deepfake Detection

    Nov 2, 2026Miao He, Jiayi Zhou, Yu Zheng +6Audio Deepfake DetectionAudio Deepfake Detection Robustness

    The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University · Ant Group · Hangzhou High-Tech Zone (Binjiang) Institute of Blockchain and Data Security

  2. Partially Edited Audio: Generation, Defense, and Open Problems

    Oct 27, 2026Lin Zhang, You Zhang, Nicholas Evans +7Audio EditingAudio Deepfake Detection

    Independent Researcher · T´el´ecom Paris · EURECOM +5

  3. ASR-Protected Fusion and Reference-Anchored Policy Optimization for Joint ASR and Word-Level Speech Anti-Spoofing

    Oct 25, 2026Xueping Zhang, Xiaoxiao Miao, Tiantian Feng +1Speech ProcessingAudio Deepfake Detection

    Digital Innovation Research Center, Duke Kunshan University, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

  4. SENTRY: A Streaming Edge Network Trust Engine for Real-Time Audio Deepfake Detection

    Oct 17, 2026Chirantan Banerjee, Soumita Chatterjee, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya +1Audio Deepfake DetectionStreaming Inference

    Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India

  5. From Spectrograms to Shallow Speech SSL: Audio-Frontend Design for Generator-Disjoint and Low-Latency Audio--Visual Deepfake Detection

    Oct 16, 2026Qiwu Wen, Jahangir Alam, Eric ChartonMultimodal Deepfake DetectionAudio Deepfake Detection

    Luqia Technologies

  6. Interpreting SSL Representations for Spoof Detection: a WavLM Study

    Oct 16, 2026Mohamed Mallat, Michele Panariello, Massimiliano Todisco +2Audio Deepfake DetectionSpeech Processing

    EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France · Université du Mans, Le Mans, France

  7. Too Emotional to Be Fake? Intra-Utterance Emotion Shifts Expose Failure Modes in Speech Deepfake Detectors

    Oct 16, 2026Jingyi Chen, Surya KoppisettiAudio Deepfake DetectionEmotional Speech Synthesis

    Reality Defender

  8. MUSEBENCH: A Benchmark for AI-Generated Music Detection and Artifact Analysis

    Oct 14, 2026Yi Chen Liu, Syed Irfan Ali Meerza, Jiawei Yu +3AI-Generated Music DetectionAudio Deepfake Detection

    University of Georgia · College of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University · University of Tennessee, Knoxville +1

  9. Physics-Aware Deepfake Detection via Distance-Speech Consistency

    Oct 13, 2026Kyeongrae Kim, Kim Sung-Bin, Oh Hyun-Bin +1Deepfake DetectionAudio Deepfake Detection

    School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Korea · Dept. of Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, Korea · School of Computing, KAIST, Korea

  10. An Initial Study of Physiological Markers for Deepfake Speech Detection

    Oct 13, 2026Vojtěch Staněk, Michal Frič, Kamil Malinka +1Audio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  11. What Do Deepfake Audio Detectors Hear? From Self-Supervised Models to Audio LLMs

    Oct 13, 2026Wanying Ge, Xin Wang, Junichi YamagishiAudio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

    National Institute of Informatics, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan

  12. Unsupervised Data Drift Monitoring for Deployed Deepfake Speech Detectors

    Oct 12, 2026Lukáš Prokeš, Vojtěch Staněk, Anton Firc +1Distribution Shift DetectionUnsupervised Anomaly Detection

  13. QBFF: Deep Quantum Bottleneck for Automatic Speaker Verification Anti-Spoofing

    Oct 12, 2026Anton Firc, Nouhaila Innan, Vojtěch Staněk +6Audio Deepfake DetectionSpeaker Verification

    eBRAIN Lab, Division of Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Abu Dhabi, UAE · Center for Quantum and Topological Systems (CQTS), NYUAD Research Institute, NYUAD, Abu Dhabi, UAE · SDU Microelectronics, Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

  14. Adaptive Compression and Targeted Perturbation: A Unified Framework for Generalized Audio Deepfake Detection

    Oct 12, 2026Jianqiao Cui, Haoxian Zhu, Hanbiao Meng +1Audio Deepfake DetectionAudio Deepfake Detection Robustness

    Imperial College London, London, UK · Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China

  15. MixedTruth: Component-Level Detection of Synthetic Speech and Synthetic Background in Mixed Audio

    Oct 9, 2026Xindong Zheng, Jiashu Zhu, Ke Li +1Audio Deepfake DetectionSpeech Processing

    Vanderbilt University

  16. Detection-Guided Adaptive Purification with Diffusion Models for Robust Audio Deepfake Detection

    Oct 7, 2026Muhammed Salih Kayhan, Qiben YanAudio Deepfake Detection RobustnessAudio Deepfake Detection

    Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

  17. DuRe-ST: Dual-Relation Spectro-Temporal Modeling for Speech Deepfake Detection

    Oct 7, 2026Shaole Li, Siqing Qin, Youzhi Tu +1Audio Deepfake DetectionASVspoof

    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR

  18. Exposing and Mitigating Neural Codec Vulnerabilities in Audio Deepfake Detection

    Oct 5, 2026Abdullah, Awais Khan, Khalid Mahmood MalikNeural Audio CodecsAudio Deepfake Detection

    College of Innovation and Technology University of Michigan-Flint Michigan, USA

  19. BabelFake: A Multilingual Audio-Visual DeepFake Benchmark

    Oct 5, 2026Carlotta Segna, Joel Tschesche, Anna RohrbachAudio Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

    TU Darmstadt & Hessian.AI, Germany

  20. Task-Aware Joint Pruning and Distillation for Efficient Audio Deepfake Detection

    Oct 4, 2026Miao He, Peng Cheng, Zhongjie Ba +4Audio Deepfake DetectionKnowledge Distillation

    The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University, China · Hangzhou High-Tech Zone (Binjiang) Institute of Blockchain and Data Security, China · Qingdao Institute of Software College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), China +1

  21. Temporal Anchors and Editing Sensitivity in Partial Speech Spoofing: A Controlled Study

    Oct 3, 2026Xiaosu Su, Yun Cao, Yiping Ni +1Audio Deepfake Detection

    Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China · School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China

  22. UZH-CL at ArA-DF 2026: Prompt-Tuned Foundation Models and Track-Adaptive Score Fusion for Arabic Speech Deepfake Detection

    Oct 1, 2026Aref Farhadipour, Teodora Vukovic, Petr MotlicekAudio Deepfake DetectionPrompt Tuning

    Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland · Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland · Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

  23. On Evaluating Quantum Kernel Robustness for Low-Resource Cross-Corpus Audio Deepfake Detection

    Sep 30, 2026Lisan Al Amin, Lei Zhang, Vandana P. JanejaAudio Deepfake DetectionDomain Generalization

    University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

  24. Collapse, Not Invariance: Diagnosing Auxiliary Objectives in Speech Anti-Spoofing

    Sep 30, 2026Ksenia Lysikova, Kirill Borodin, Maxim Maslov +1Audio Deepfake DetectionRepresentation Collapse

    Lab260, Yerevan, Armenia · BitmanagerAI, Dubai, UAE · MTUCI, Moscow, Russia

  25. SEAR: Spoofing Evidence-Grounded Audio Reasoning Benchmark for Audio Language Models

    Sep 30, 2026Rong Wan, Suliu Qin, Jiaxi Li +5Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Deepfake Detection

    University of Surrey · Singapore University of Technology and Design · Guangxi University +1

  26. SE-ADD: Self-Evolving Audio Deepfake Detection with Mistake-Driven Supervision

    Sep 30, 2026Rong Wan, Wei Xie, Jiaxi Li +4Audio Deepfake DetectionSelf-Training for Language Models

    University of Surrey · Guangxi University · Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology +1

  27. Neural Audio Codec for Robust Audio Deepfake Detection

    Sep 30, 2026Jungwoo Kim, Joonyong Park, Junyoung Koh +1Neural Audio CodecsAudio Deepfake Detection

    Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · MAAP Lab, Republic of Korea · The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan +1

  28. Learning as Deepfakes Evolve: RF-Prompt for Continual Audio Deepfake Detection

    Sep 29, 2026Yuankun Xie, Xiaoxuan Guo, Xiaopeng Wang +3Audio Deepfake DetectionPrompt Learning

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China · Communication University of China, Beijing, China · Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

  29. GLAD: Global-Local Adaptive Detector for Robust Speech Deepfake Detection

    Sep 28, 2026Zelin Zhao, Guanjie Huang, Danny Hin Kwok Tsang +1Audio Deepfake DetectionDomain Generalization

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  30. Domain-Adaptive Dual-Gating Mixture of Experts for Generalizable Speech Deepfake Detection

    Sep 27, 2026Siqing Qin, Zhe Li, Kong Aik Lee +1Audio Deepfake DetectionDomain Adaptation

    Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Speech, Language, and Cognition Laboratory, The University of Hong Kong