arXiv:2609.13842v1 Announce Type: cross

Abstract: Recent advances in speech synthesis and voice conversion have made deepfake speech increasingly realistic, making generalization to unseen spoofing attacks a critical challenge. Pretrained speech and audio models offer a promising direction for improving robustness to such unseen attacks. Self-supervised learning (SSL) models capture fine-grained, low-level acoustic characteristics, whereas Auditory Large Language Models (ALLMs) provide higher-level contextual representations. These complementary views can provide useful cues for improving generalization to unseen attacks. However, direct fusion does not explicitly disentangle information shared across the two views from view-specific complementary information, limiting effective cross-view integration. To address this, we propose CRAF, a cross-view residual-aware fusion framework that uses ALLM-guided cross-view attention to enrich SSL representations and adopts ALLM as a high-level reference to separate ALLM-explainable information from complementary SSL residual information. The residual is selectively refined through adaptive gating and integrated through SSL-primary fusion. Experiments on ASVspoof 5 show that CRAF with Kimi-Audio achieves an EER of 5.96% and a minDCF of 0.1192, demonstrating robustness to unseen spoofing attacks.