Vsevolod Kovalev

SEAM: Shortcut-Aware Real-Time Detection of Scripted vs. Spontaneous Speech for Interview Guardrails

SEAM is presented, a shortcut-aware framework for real-time scriptedness detection that combines uniform preprocessing, seam-aware sampling, non-speech augmentation, and a compact DistilHuBERT backbone that demonstrates that robust real-time scriptedness detection depends not only on the backbone, but on shortcut-aware data design and evaluation.