Glossary
What does “Speaker attribution” mean?
Putting each line of a transcript under the name of the person who said it.
What it means
Putting each line of a transcript under the name of the person who said it. It can be done by estimating from voices, or by knowing which person’s microphone the words came through.
An example
“Maya: Let’s move the launch to the 20th. Leo: Agreed, I’ll tell support.” — the names matter as much as the words when the notes are used to check who agreed to what.
Not to be confused with: Diarization
Diarization is one way to attribute speakers, by estimating from a single mixed recording. Attribution from separate microphones does not need to estimate.
Where you will see it
In meeting transcripts and summaries, call recordings and legal or compliance records. Meetful puts each line under the name of the person whose microphone it came through, rather than guessing from voices.
Questions
Why does speaker attribution matter?
Decisions, promises and action items depend on who said them; a wrong name can change what a record means.
How can you check speaker labels?
Listen to a few lines where the speaker matters most, especially decisions, and correct the names before sharing the notes.
What happens to attribution when two people share one microphone?
Software that relies on microphones can only say which microphone the words came through, so a room sharing one speakerphone needs its own way to tell people apart — or each person joining on their own device.
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