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One Altered Sentence Fooled Listeners 77 Percent of the Time
In a study of 82 IT professionals, partial audio spoofs were harder to localize than fully synthetic speech.
Summary
In a study of 82 IT professionals, partial audio spoofs were harder to localize than fully synthetic speech.
Strict accuracy for locating the altered sentence fell to 9 percent, and listeners marked the synthetic segment as genuine 77 percent of the time. Humans and six pretrained detectors failed in different ways, supporting procedural verification and provenance rather than listening alone.
Why it matters
In a study of 82 IT professionals, partial audio spoofs were harder to localize than fully synthetic speech.
Limits and context
No additional limitation was separately recorded.
Key claims
In a study of 82 IT professionals, partial audio spoofs were harder to localize than fully synthetic speech.
Evidence: source-2026-08-23-017
Sources
- arXiv preprint 2608.19959arXiv · primary research
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