I Hear, Therefore I Trust: A Socio-Technical Investigation of Humans as Synthetic Speech Detectors

ArXi:2605.28064v1 Announce Type: cross Automatic deepfake detection has received considerable research attention, yet the socio-technical environment in which humans actually encounter synthetic speech remains poorly understood. We investigate voice deepfake detection as a perceptual and contextual process, presenting a localization task in which 47 participants marked suspected synthetic segments across authentic, fully synthetic, and partially synthetic utterances under three manipulated trust cues: instructional framing, affective priming, and provenance labeling.