Multilingual Dataset Integration Strategies for Robust Audio Deepfake Detection: A SAFE Challenge System

Hashim Ali, Surya Subramani, Lekha Bollinani, Nithin Sai Adupa, Sali El-Loh +1 more
8/28/2025
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The SAFE Challenge evaluates synthetic speech detection across three tasks: unmodified audio, processed audio with compression artifacts, and laundered audio designed to evade detection. We systematically explore self-supervised learning (SSL) front-ends, training data compositions, and audio length configurations for robust deepfake detection. Our AASIST-based approach incorporates WavLM large frontend with RawBoost augmentation, trained on a multilingual dataset of 256,600 samples spanning 9 languages and over 70 TTS systems from CodecFake, MLAAD v5, SpoofCeleb, Famous Figures, and MAILABS. Through extensive experimentation with different SSL front-ends, three training data versions, and two audio lengths, we achieved second place in both Task 1 (unmodified audio detection) and Task 3 (laundered audio detection), demonstrating strong generalization and robustness.

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@article{ali2025multilingual,
  title  = {Multilingual Dataset Integration Strategies for Robust Audio Deepfake Detection: A SAFE Challenge System},
  author = {Hashim Ali and Surya Subramani and Lekha Bollinani and Nithin Sai Adupa and Sali El-Loh and Hafiz Malik},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2508.20983},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20983v2}
}

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