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VoxWatermark: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Audio Watermark Detection under Perturbations

Farnaz Sedaghati·Yuxi Wang·Zicheng Weng·Wei Rao
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With the rapid deployment of speech generation systems in open environments, providing verifiable source attribution and copyright accountability for audio content has become critical. A gap in current research is the lack of a unified benchmark that systematically compares different watermark injection methods under realistic distribution shifts. To address this, we build VoxWatermark by applying 10 watermarking methods (4 neural and 6 traditional) with unified injection and annotation on multilingual, multi-source corpora, and introducing no-box, black-box, and white-box perturbations to simulate real recording and transmission conditions. Based on this benchmark, we propose AudioWMD as a robust baseline detector for large-scale, multi-method, cross-distribution settings. Results show that injection-method diversity and distribution shifts affect detection stability, while validating the effectiveness and scalability of AudioWMD. Dataset and code are publicly available.

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Farnaz Sedaghati, Yuxi Wang, Zicheng Weng, Wei Rao. 2026-06-13. VoxWatermark: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Audio Watermark Detection under Perturbations. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15187

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