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Decay-Region Group Delay as a Forensic Cue for AI-Generated Impulsive Sounds

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 26, 2026 · UTC

We investigate whether AI-generated impulsive sounds can be distinguished from real ones through group delay analysis. Our central finding is that AI-generated impulsive sounds show near-identical onset-region group-delay distributions but exhibit measurably different group-delay behavior in the late decay region: decay-region KL divergence reaches $0.322$ compared to near-zero onset divergence ($0.022$). Cross-band GD variability achieves single-feature AUC~=~0.720, and a Random Forest (RF) over nine decay-region features reaches AUC~$=$~0.884 under sample-disjoint evaluation. A group delay m

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