If you cannot identify who exactly is speaking, you should use temporary or generic speaker labels such as "Speaker 1," "Speaker 2," or with question marks like "?Speaker 1" to indicate uncertainty. This helps keep track of speakers for editing or transcription purposes, and an editor or further review can then clarify the exact identity later. Another approach in writing or dialogue is to rely on unique voice characteristics or context to infer who is speaking, but if that's not possible, labeling is recommended to avoid confusion.
In technical or automated contexts, speaker identification systems may give a best guess, but for unknown speakers not in the system, marking them as "unknown" or using an "Unk" class is a practice in speaker recognition technology.
In summary, when exact identification of a speaker is not possible:
- Use generic or uncertain speaker labels.
- Rely on an editor or further review to clarify identities.
- In automated systems, recognize unknown speakers with a designated unknown label.
This ensures clarity and organization until the speaker can be definitively identified.
