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Aug 2026
Evaluating Pre-trained Speech Encoders for Spontaneous Speech Detection and Out of Domain Synthetic Speech Generalisation in Indic Languages
Centroid analysis shows that out-of-domain generalisation is predicted by a training system's proximity to unseen TTS embeddings, not its distance from natural speech, a finding with direct implications for training data selection in real-world deepfake detectors.
Varun Rai, J. PavanKumar, Sujith Pulikodan et al.
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