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The divergence-override rule discussed as the natural next step once #317/#319 started collecting whole-call, identity-keyed UI shadow data: when the network path stays healthy-looking but pins an entire call on one participant, and the muted UI observer independently saw two people taking turns, trust the UI.

The gap this closes

Prod bot acf4eecf (root-caused earlier): CSRC picked the single loudest stream and pinned 5,271-vs-31 speaking samples on one of two real, alternating speakers. The timeline was contiguous and looked healthy — no gap for a fallback to fill, no retrofit to trigger. The one signal that had the right answer the whole call — Meet's own active-speaker indicator, captured by #317's shadow buffer — had no path to override a confident-looking-but-wrong network timeline. This PR is that path.

Detection rule

detectSourceDissonance in speaker-timeline-assembler.ts:

  • Network has exactly one effective speaker (≥15s, SOURCE_DISSONANCE_MIN_SPEAKER_SECONDS, matching the reconciliation-side EFFECTIVE_SPEAKER_MIN_SECONDS convention) — a live source didn't die, it collapsed.
  • UI independently shows two or more effective speakers.
  • Shared identity required: the network's one speaker's name must also appear among the UI's effective speakers — this is what distinguishes a real collapse from two sources using incompatible naming schemes, and stops a false trigger on an unrelated identity mismatch.
  • Recording-bot names are excluded from both sides' counts (same botNames mechanism as the rest of the file).

On a match, the UI source is promoted to primary for that call; network still fills any large holes the UI timeline leaves, so a sparse UI signal never discards good network data — it only wins the stretches it corroborates disagreement on.

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Base (1cbd64b3) already contains #319/#323/#324/#322 — confirmed via merge-base --is-ancestor, no rebase needed. npm ci + tsc --noEmit clean; speaker-timeline-assembler.test.ts (4 new cases: positive match, transient-speaker rejection, bot-exclusion, no-shared-identity rejection), diarization-tracker.test.ts, speaker-manager.test.ts — 53/53 pass.

Known limitation

Bot self-exclusion here inherits the same botNames-matching risk class already present elsewhere in this file (e.g. a truncated/SSO-displayed bot name not in the list) — not a regression introduced by this PR, just worth flagging since a missed bot name plus a genuinely single-speaker call is the one way to false-trigger this.

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Network speaker streams can stay healthy while attributing every turn to one participant. Promote corroborated multi-speaker UI observations during final assembly.
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved speaker timeline accuracy when network diarization collapses multiple sustained speakers into one.
    • Uses corroborating UI speaker data to distinguish shared speakers while preserving network data for gap filling.
    • Ignores transient UI speakers, recording bots, and identities without matching evidence to avoid incorrect speaker assignments.

Walkthrough

The timeline assembler detects corroborated UI evidence when network diarization collapses to one speaker. It promotes the UI source, returns dissonance metadata, and logs the source change with effective speaker counts.

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Source dissonance handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dissonance contract and detection
src/speaker-timeline-assembler.ts, src/speaker-timeline-assembler.test.ts
The assembler adds a 15-second threshold and SpeakerSourceDissonance metadata. It detects shared-identity collapse while excluding transient speakers and recording bots. Tests cover promotion and boundary cases.
Source precedence and assembly result
src/speaker-timeline-assembler.ts
assembleSpeakerTimeline promotes UI data when network data reports one effective speaker and returns the dissonance metadata.
Tracker warning integration
src/diarization-tracker.ts
The tracker captures dissonance metadata and logs the promoted and demoted sources with effective speaker counts.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 923e0

The reviewed source-promotion and tracker integration changes are ready to merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DiarizationTracker
  participant SpeakerTimelineAssembler
  participant NetworkSource
  participant UISource
  participant Logger
  DiarizationTracker->>SpeakerTimelineAssembler: assemble timelines
  SpeakerTimelineAssembler->>NetworkSource: count effective speakers
  SpeakerTimelineAssembler->>UISource: count sustained speakers
  SpeakerTimelineAssembler-->>DiarizationTracker: return segments and dissonance metadata
  DiarizationTracker->>Logger: log source promotion warning
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In `@src/speaker-timeline-assembler.test.ts`:
- Around line 92-107: Add a test alongside the existing assembleSpeakerTimeline
cases using network and UI speaker names that differ only by case or surrounding
whitespace, such as “ stefano ” and “Stefano”; assert that sourceDissonance is
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Comment on lines +92 to +107
it("requires a shared identity before treating different source names as collapse evidence", () => {
const network = [seg("Network Identity", 0, 120)]
const { segments, sourceDissonance } = assembleSpeakerTimeline(
[
{ kind: "network", segments: network },
{
kind: "ui",
segments: [seg("Alice", 0, 60), seg("Bob", 60, 120)]
}
],
120
)

expect(sourceDissonance).toBeUndefined()
expect(segments).toEqual(network)
})

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a case for normalized identity matching.

speakerDurations keys speakers by speaker.trim().toLowerCase(), so the shared-identity check matches "stefano " against "Stefano". The four new tests only use exactly equal or completely different names, so this normalization is untested. Add one case where the network and UI names differ only in case or surrounding whitespace and assert that dissonance is still detected.

♻️ Proposed additional test
it("matches shared identities that differ only in case and whitespace", () => {
  const network = [seg(" stefano ", 0, 1400, 2)]
  const ui = [seg("Stefano", 0, 640, 2), seg("Emanuele", 640, 1350, 3)]
  const { sourceDissonance } = assembleSpeakerTimeline(
    [
      { kind: "network", segments: network },
      { kind: "ui", segments: ui }
    ],
    1400
  )

  expect(sourceDissonance?.promotedSource).toBe("ui")
})
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In `@src/speaker-timeline-assembler.test.ts` around lines 92 - 107, Add a test
alongside the existing assembleSpeakerTimeline cases using network and UI
speaker names that differ only by case or surrounding whitespace, such as “
stefano ” and “Stefano”; assert that sourceDissonance is detected and promotes
the UI source, validating normalized identity matching.

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