ArA-DF 2026: Findings of the First Shared Task on Arabic Speech Deepfake Detection
We present ArA-DF 2026, the first shared task for Arabic speech deepfake detection, held at ArabicNLP 2026. Unlike existing benchmarks that conflate all distribution shift into a single evaluation set, ArA-DF 2026 separates dialect generalization (Track 1: unseen Arabic dialects and speakers) from acoustic robustness (...