Human Detection of Voice-Cloned Speech Under GSM, VoLTE and VoIP Conditions
The rapid progress of generative speech synthesis and voice-cloning technologies has enabled the creation of highly natural synthetic voices that pose a serious threat to telecommunication security. While most prior studies evaluate human ability to detect audio deepfakes using high-quality, studio-grade recordings, little is known about how real-world telecommunication channels affect perceptual detection. This study investigates the influence of three transmission scenarios—GSM (AMR-NB), VoLTE (AMR-WB), and Vo…
Listeners detected ElevenLabs-cloned speech more accurately when audio was transmitted through narrowband GSM (AMR-NB) at 63.7%, compared to other telecom conditions.
95 listeners could barely distinguish natural speech from ElevenLabs-cloned speech after telecom transmission, with overall accuracy of 54.8% and only 44.0% on VoLTE, increasing susceptibility to voice spoofing.
Findings are bounded by a small custom corpus of nine speakers and by use of simulated rather than live telecom transmission, which may not capture all real-world variability.
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- Peer-reviewedAcoustics2026-06-17
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-0152, v1: “Human Detection of Voice-Cloned Speech Under GSM, VoLTE and VoIP Conditions.” Truvace, 2026-07-13. /record/TRV-2026-0152 (accessed at citation time). sha256 9ac048c232cf8341…
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