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The Machines Are Calling: Measuring Automated and Synthetic Voices in Unwanted Inbound Calls
Xingyu Shen, Tommy Duong, Muduo Xu +8
In February 2024 the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) placed AI-generated voices under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Yet no peer-reviewed measurement sa…
A Corpus of Real Scam- and Spam-Call Conversations from an Active Voice-Agent Honeypot
Ethan Traister, Dennis Tsang Ng, Siyu Zhang +7
Real conversations between fraudsters and their targets are among the most informative artifacts for studying telephone scams, yet also the scarcest: passive honeypots overwhelming…
Anatomy of a Scam Call: What 10,000 real scam and spam calls reveal about how phone scammers operate
Ethan Traister, Ankit Raj, Jiaqi Gan +7
Telephone fraud is pervasive and costly, but its inner workings are rarely observed at scale. We analyze a complete corpus of 10,211 inbound scam and spam calls -- 913 hours of aud…
CallScreenBench: Benchmarking Small Language Models as Phone Secretaries
Jiaqi Gan, Haoyuan Tang, Jamey Z. Liang +6
Language models small enough to run on a handset, quantized to a few bits, are increasingly capable of acting on their user's behalf -- which makes on-device task automation newly…