arXiv:2606. 10246v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Maliciously-created fake speech, including deepfaked and spoofed audio, is proliferating at an alarming rate, and detection models are racing to stay ahead of the curve.
By Ashley R. Keaton, Zahra Khanjani, Christine Mallinson, Vandana P. Janeja
arXiv:2607. 09891v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio deepfake detection models determine whether speech is genuine or artificially generated, but high overall accuracy can mask substantial performance disparities across demographic groups.
By Aishwarya R. Fursule, Vamshi Nallaguntla, Shruti Kshirsagar, Anderson R. Avila
arXiv:2608. 13624v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) have seen increasing use for audio understanding tasks such as speech recognition and audio question answering, raising concerns about fairness across demographic subgroups.
By Zhe Liu
arXiv:2607. 03201v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-form recordings (LFRs) of child-centered audio are ecologically valid sources for studying early language development, but three problems limit their use.
By Kaveri K. Sheth, Lawrence Borst, Tarek Kunze, Marvin Lavechin, Okko R\"as\"anen, Sho Tsuji, Loann Peurey, Alix Bourr\'ee, Alejandrina Cristia
arXiv:2607. 03418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A trustworthy and GDPR-compliant deepfake audio detector must base its decisions on acoustic artifacts, not on what is being said or who is speaking.
By Nicolas M. M\"uller, Aditya Tirumala Bukkapatnam, Dominik Schnieders, Zohaib Ahmed
The study investigates cultural biases in large language models (LLMs) by testing their ability to perform author profiling—inferring singers’ gender and ethnicity—from song lyrics in a zero‑shot setting. Evaluating over 10,000 lyrics across several open‑source models, the authors find that most LLMs default toward North American ethnicity, while DeepSeek‑1.5B leans toward Asian ethnicity, and that Ministral‑8B exhibits the strongest ethnicity bias whereas Gemma‑12B is the most balanced. The paper introduces two fairness metrics, Modality Accuracy Divergence (MAD) and Recall Divergence (RD), to quantify these disparities and provides code and results publicly on GitHub and HuggingFace.
By Valentin Lafargue, Ariel Guerra-Adames, Emmanuelle Claeys, Elouan Vuichard, Jean-Michel Loubes
arXiv:2607. 20073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-based recruitment systems that rely on machine learning models trained on historical CV data, risk perpetuating and amplifying social biases.
By Farnaz Faramarzi Lighvan, Lynn Houthuys
arXiv:2609.18533v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems exhibit unequal error rates across speaker groups, motivating interventions on their internal representation...
By Nicolas Bourrel, Abderrahmane Issam, Gerasimos Spanakis
arXiv:2609.38976v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Demographic fairness gaps in automatic speech recognition are almost always reported from a single training run. We fine-tune the Q-former projector an...
By Srishti Ginjala, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Srinivasan Parthasarathy
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems exhibit unequal error rates across speaker groups, motivating interventions on their internal representations. We ask whether speaker-linked attributes that...
arXiv:2605.28227v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Speech translation models are increasingly capable of preserving speech-specific information (e.g., speaker gender, prosody, and emphasis), yet eva...
By Maike Z\"ufle, Danni Liu, Vil\'em Zouhar, Jan Niehues
arXiv:2607. 21820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio deepfake detectors are trained to distinguish genuine speech from synthetic speech and often perform well on standard benchmarks.
By Daniyal Kabir Dar, Arun Ross