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Overlapped Speech Detection

A task focused on identifying time intervals in which multiple speakers talk simultaneously.

Overlapped speech detection is one of the hardest aspects of diarization. Human conversation naturally overlaps, especially in interactive settings such as meetings and call centers. If the system does not model this explicitly, both speaker boundaries and transcription quality can degrade severely. For this reason, modern diarization systems often treat it as a dedicated subproblem.