Fact · Transcription
GoTranscript's style advice is to mark overlapping speech that cannot be separated as [crosstalk mm:ss].
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Use [crosstalk mm:ss] if people talk at once and you can’t separate their words.”
How to Format a Transcript: Everything There Is to Know, GoTranscript, GoTranscript, n.d., Inaudible and Crosstalk Tags.
Open the original- What it measures
- The same section gives the example [crosstalk 01:49].
- What it does not show
- One vendor's convention, shown as an example of how tags can be set.