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Deepfake vishing surged 1600% in 2025. Most detection tools analyze text, not audio — and miss what matters. Here's how voice-native detection actually works.
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Deepfake fraud is accelerating and most detection systems are built wrong — they analyze transcripts instead of raw audio, missing the synthetic speech artifacts that actually reveal a fake. This piece breaks down how attacks work in production, why text-first detection fails, and how audio-native models like Modulate's Deepfake Detection API catch what humans and biometrics can't.