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# SEA Fake Speech Dataset
The rapid growth of the digital economy in South-East Asia (SEA)
has amplified the risks of audio deepfakes—yet current datasets
cover SEA languages only sparsely, leaving models poorly equipped
to handle this critical region. This omission is critical: detection
models trained on high-resource languages collapse when applied
to SEA, due to mismatches in synthesis quality, language-specific
characteristics, and data scarcity. To close this gap, we present
SEA-Spoof, the first large-scale ADD dataset especially for SEA
languages. SEA-Spoof spans 300+ hours of paired real and spoof
speech across Tamil, Hindi, Thai, Indonesian, Malay, and Viet-
namese. Spoof samples are generated from a diverse mix of state-
of-the-art open-source and commercial systems, capturing wide
variability in style and fidelity. Benchmarking state-of-the-art detec-
tion models reveals severe cross-lingual degradation, but fine-tuning
on SEA-Spoof dramatically restores performance across languages
and synthesis sources. These results highlight the urgent need for
SEA-focused research and establish SEA-Spoof as a foundation
for developing robust, cross-lingual, and fraud-resilient detection
systems.
## Dataset Summary
This dataset contains multilingual speech data for deepfake detection,
covering 6 Southeast Asian languages (Hindi, Tamil, Thai, Malay, Indonesian, Vietnamese).
It includes synthetic speech from open-source and commercial TTS models,
as well as real human recordings.
## Languages
- Hindi
- Tamil
- Thai
- Malay
- Indonesian
- Vietnamese