arXiv:2610.15082v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: As text-to-speech (TTS) systems continue to advance, provenance tracking and security verification of synthesized speech have become increasingly imp...
By Yihang Zhang, Weicai Yan, Qifei Zhang, Yangyang Wu, Tao Jin
arXiv:2606. 11828v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio watermarking aims to embed identifiable information into audio while remaining imperceptible.
By Haiyun Li, Shuhai Peng, Zhisheng Zhang, Jingran Xie, Xiaofeng Xie, Hanyang Peng, Zhiyong Wu
Audio watermarking aims to embed identifiable information into audio while remaining imperceptible. Existing methods adopt high-fidelity, low-energy designs to preserve perceptual quality, but the resulting watermarks lack robustness under suppression by speech reconstruction models.
Provenance watermarking is increasingly treated as a safeguard for synthetic speech, whether built directly into speech-generation models such as Chatterbox, provided through dedicated techniques such as AudioSeal, or deployed by commercial platforms such as ElevenLabs. We identify a previously uncharacterized liability: when synthetic speech is watermarked and human speech is not, detectors trained alongside latch onto the watermark as a spurious "watermark => fake" shortcut.
arXiv:2606. 23335v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Provenance watermarking is increasingly treated as a safeguard for synthetic speech, whether built directly into speech-generation models such as Chatterbox, provided through dedicated techniques such as AudioSeal, or deployed by commercial platforms such as ElevenLabs.
By Nicolas M. M\"uller, Pascal Debus
The paper introduces CRAW, a codec‑robust audio watermarking framework designed to embed imperceptible signals into synthetic speech. CRAW enhances robustness against neural re‑synthesis, codecs, denoisers, and vocoders while preserving high perceptual quality through distortion‑aware training, attention‑based pooling, perceptual masking, and error‑correcting codes. Experiments show CRAW outperforms existing post‑hoc watermarking methods in robustness without compromising audio quality.
By David Chernin, Ethan Fetaya