{
  "id": 9689990,
  "title": "To Trust or Not to Trust: Retrieval-Augmented Fact Checking in Speech",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/to-trust-or-not-to-trust-retrieval-augmented-fact-checking-in-speech",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-24T17:50:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30227v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Online misinformation increasingly appears in spoken formats such as news clips, podcasts, interviews, political speeches, and social media videos, creating a need for fact-checking systems that can verify claims directly from speech. We introduce VeriSpeak, a probe benchmark for studying speech-based fact verification in Large Audio Language Models (LALMs). VeriSpeak contains 3,879 spoken claims…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}