MLAAD: The Multi-Language Audio Anti-Spoofing Dataset
Existing anti-spoofing audio detection systems suffer from poor generalization and cross-lingual robustness due to overreliance on English and Chinese data. Method: We introduce MLAAD—the first large-scale multilingual anti-spoofing audio dataset—comprising 160.2 hours of speech across 23 languages, synthesized using 52 TTS models (spanning 22 architectures). MLAAD bridges the critical gap in non-English/non-Chinese spoofing data. For the first time, we systematically overcome language bias in spoofing detection, demonstrating complementarity with ASVspoof 2019 and substantially improving cross-lingual detection performance. Contribution/Results: Extensive cross-dataset evaluation on ResNet, LCNN, and RawNet2 shows that models trained on MLAAD consistently outperform those trained on InTheWild and FakeOrReal across eight benchmarks; moreover, MLAAD-trained models achieve state-of-the-art results on four datasets, while ASVspoof 2019-trained models lead on the other four. This advances global applicability and fairness in deepfake audio detection.