Audio Deepfake Detection with Half-Truth Localisation Using Cross-Attentive Feature Fusion
Audio deepfake detection is well-studied as a binary problem, but partially manipulated speech, where a short synthesised segment is spliced into an otherwise genuine utterance, poses a harder and more realistic threat. Detecting such half-truth audio requires not only distinguishing it from real and fully fake speech, but also localising where the manipulation occurs. We present CAFNet, a 576k-parameter architecture that addresses both tasks jointly: it performs ternary classification (real, fully-fake, or half-truth) and regresses the temporal boundaries of the synthesised region in a single forward pass. CAFNet fuses Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC), Linear-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (LFCC), and Chroma Short-Time Fourier Transform (Chroma-STFT) features through parallel depthwise-separable convolution branches with cross-attention, followed by a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) regression head for boundary prediction. On the combined Multi-Lingual Audio Deepfake Detection Corpus (MLADDC) T2+T3 test set, CAFNet achieves 92.71% accuracy and macro Area Under the Curve (AUC) of 0.9910, with boundary localisation Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 0.075s and a median error of 0.052s. On binary detection, it achieves 96.76% accuracy and 3.20% Equal Error Rate (EER), outperforming fine-tuned XLS-R 300M (78.31%) and AST 87M (93.03%) at over 500 times fewer parameters. A cross-dataset study further shows that standard fine-tuning collapses cross-domain representations even under reduced backbone learning rates.
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