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Diarization systems are reported to be more accurate in balanced conversations with long turns and little turn overlap.

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“these systems have better accuracy in balanced conversations with long turns and little turn overlap”

Speaker-conversation factorial designs for diarization error analysis, Scott Seyfarth et al., arXiv, 2021, Introduction.

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What it measures
Short turns and frequent overlap are the conversational conditions where diarizers lose accuracy. Meetings and interviews often have both.
What it does not show
The authors state this as background from earlier studies. It is a summary of the literature, not a new measurement in this paper.

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