Listening Between the Lines: Synthetic Speech Detection Disregarding Verbal Content

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Recent advancements in synthetic speech generation have led to the creation of forged audio data that are almost indistinguishable from real speech.

• This phenomenon poses a new challenge for the multimedia forensics community, as the misuse of synthetic media can potentially cause adverse consequences.
• Several methods have been proposed in the literature to mitigate potential risks and detect synthetic speech, mainly focusing on the analysis of the speech itself.
• However, recent studies have revealed that the most crucial frequency bands for detection lie in the highest ranges (above 6000 Hz), which do not include any speech content.