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Main Authors: Salvi, Davide, Koops, Hendrik Vincent, Quinton, Elio
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17474
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author Salvi, Davide
Koops, Hendrik Vincent
Quinton, Elio
author_facet Salvi, Davide
Koops, Hendrik Vincent
Quinton, Elio
contents The proliferation of highly realistic singing voice deepfakes presents a significant challenge to protecting artist likeness and content authenticity. Automatic singer identification in vocal deepfakes is a promising avenue for artists and rights holders to defend against unauthorized use of their voice, but remains an open research problem. Based on the premise that the most harmful deepfakes are those of the highest quality, we introduce a two-stage pipeline to identify a singer's vocal likeness. It first employs a discriminator model to filter out low-quality forgeries that fail to accurately reproduce vocal likeness. A subsequent model, trained exclusively on authentic recordings, identifies the singer in the remaining high-quality deepfakes and authentic audio. Experiments show that this system consistently outperforms existing baselines on both authentic and synthetic content.
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spellingShingle Not All Deepfakes Are Created Equal: Triaging Audio Forgeries for Robust Deepfake Singer Identification
Salvi, Davide
Koops, Hendrik Vincent
Quinton, Elio
Sound
The proliferation of highly realistic singing voice deepfakes presents a significant challenge to protecting artist likeness and content authenticity. Automatic singer identification in vocal deepfakes is a promising avenue for artists and rights holders to defend against unauthorized use of their voice, but remains an open research problem. Based on the premise that the most harmful deepfakes are those of the highest quality, we introduce a two-stage pipeline to identify a singer's vocal likeness. It first employs a discriminator model to filter out low-quality forgeries that fail to accurately reproduce vocal likeness. A subsequent model, trained exclusively on authentic recordings, identifies the singer in the remaining high-quality deepfakes and authentic audio. Experiments show that this system consistently outperforms existing baselines on both authentic and synthetic content.
title Not All Deepfakes Are Created Equal: Triaging Audio Forgeries for Robust Deepfake Singer Identification
topic Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17474