Humans can detect deepfake speech only 73% of the time, study finds

English and Mandarin speakers found to have the same level of accuracy when detecting artificially generated speechHumans are able to detect artificially generated speech only 73% of the time, a study has found, with the same levels of accuracy found in English and Mandarin speakers.Researchers at University College London used a text-to-speech algorithm trained on two publicly available datasets, one in English and the other in Mandarin, to generate 50 deepfake speech samples in each language.