{
  "id": 672490,
  "title": "Handling overlapping speakers",
  "url": "/competitions/dl-sprint-4-0-bengali-speaker-diarization-challenge/discussion/672490",
  "author_name": "Istiak Ahmmed Rifti",
  "post_date": "2026-02-08T16:08:05.663000",
  "votes": 0,
  "comment_count": 0,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>To avoid ambiguity in diarization labels:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><p>If two or more speakers overlap in time, we will not label multiple speakers for the same time interval.</p></li>\n<li><p>The overlap interval will be attributed to the speaker who started first.</p></li>\n<li><p>Any speaker who starts later during the overlap will be ignored until the first speaker stops (or until a new non-overlapping segment begins).</p></li>\n</ul>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 3403493,
      "postDate": "2026-02-08T16:08:05.663Z",
      "content": "<p>To avoid ambiguity in diarization labels:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><p>If two or more speakers overlap in time, we will not label multiple speakers for the same time interval.</p></li>\n<li><p>The overlap interval will be attributed to the speaker who started first.</p></li>\n<li><p>Any speaker who starts later during the overlap will be ignored until the first speaker stops (or until a new non-overlapping segment begins).</p></li>\n</ul>",
      "rawMarkdown": "To avoid ambiguity in diarization labels:\n\n- If two or more speakers overlap in time, we will not label multiple speakers for the same time interval.\n\n- The overlap interval will be attributed to the speaker who started first.\n\n- Any speaker who starts later during the overlap will be ignored until the first speaker stops (or until a new non-overlapping segment begins)."
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    "3403493": "To avoid ambiguity in diarization labels:\n\n- If two or more speakers overlap in time, we will not label multiple speakers for the same time interval.\n\n- The overlap interval will be attributed to the speaker who started first.\n\n- Any speaker who starts later during the overlap will be ignored until the first speaker stops (or until a new non-overlapping segment begins)."
  }
}