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0milliseconds (default collar)

The dscore scoring tool computes diarization error rate with a collar of 0 milliseconds by default and counts regions of overlapping speech.

Checked against its source on October 17, 2026

In the source's own words

“with a default collar size of 0 ms and explicitly including regions that contain overlapping speech in the reference diarization”

dscore: scoring tool for speaker diarization (README), Neville Ryant, GitHub, n.d., Section on DER scoring.

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What it measures
A reader comparing two DER figures should first check the collar and overlap settings, because they change the number.
What it does not show
Software default, not a standard. Papers may set other values, and the README describes this one tool only.

Source

The dscore tool scores with no collar and keeps overlap | Yap