Synthetic Speech Attribution via Prototypical Networks

Abstract

Synthetic speech attribution aims to identify the generative system responsible for a speech signal, but current approaches typically rely on black-box neural networks that provide limited insight into their decisions. This work investigates prototype-based networks as an interpretable alternative, where predictions are grounded in comparisons with representative training examples. We adapt ProtoPNet to spectrogram-based speech representations and evaluate the proposed framework on the MLAAD dataset under closed-set, cross-lingual, and open-set conditions. Experiments show that prototype-based reasoning achieves competitive or improved attribution performance compared with the baseline while enabling example-based explanations. These results highlight that interpretability and performance can be jointly achieved in synthetic speech attribution through prototype-based modeling.