# Speaker roster — Vigo County Commissioners, 2026-08-12 Diarization produced 126 anonymous voice-cluster labels for this meeting; 106 carried only sparse, isolated utterances and were merged by the transcript provider into a single `` bucket that is **not** resolved here (per pipeline scope, only labels with substantial speech are attributed). The 20 labels below are those with enough speech to attribute — resolving to 17 distinct identified/role-typed people once merges are applied. ## Revision note (supersedes the 2026-08-28 draft held by audit) That draft was held for three reasons; this revision addresses all three: 1. **Open-set name generation.** The prior draft named `speaker_9`/`speaker_109` "Jim Bramble" from a chain of narrative inference — the only quoted naming event was the nickname "Jimmy" [t=2032], addressed to a speaker whose actual reply lands in the unresolved `` bucket, not under either of these labels. That chain is dropped entirely. Neither label is merged or named here; both are `role_only`, closed-set-eliminated to "a commissioner" (see below), consistent with the county's three-seat board (Morris, Switzer, Clinkenbeard — `Ledger/Entities/People/`) minus the two seats already accounted for elsewhere. 2. **Confirmed names built on garbled ASR.** `speaker_28`'s prior "confirmed" rested partly on a self-ID quote ("Clicker Works, Mike Works") that is almost certainly equipment-check chatter ("clicker works, mic works"), not a name — corrected below to a surname cross-referenced from the same-day companion meeting instead, at `probable`. `speaker_387`'s surname is likewise cross-referenced against the companion meeting's confirmed self-ID rather than picked from this transcript's inconsistent renderings. 3. **`meeting:` pointed into `Staging/`.** Fixed to the deterministic `Ledger/` promotion path below. ## Notes for the highlight stage - **`speaker_28`, `speaker_33`, `speaker_42`, and `speaker_44` are one person**, merged here on repeated mid-sentence diarization splits across a ~20-minute uninterrupted presentation — e.g. "...on this very important issue. Since October of 2025, when the council" [28, t=144] runs straight into "approved the Oversight Board, its creation..." [33, t=151]; "Maintaining 23 aging facilities" [33, t=356] into "is increasingly expensive." [42, t=368]; "Trying to" [33, t=398] into "get some emotion out of an accountant here" [44, t=398]. Decisive: the label carrying the joking asides (`speaker_42`) is also the one that hands the floor to a named colleague — "Carrie, do you want to touch on transportation?" [t=1612] — the presenter/moderator's own function, not a second person's. Treated as one continuous voice, best-guess named **the Oversight Board lead presenter** (`probable` — see below), not the county commissioner Mark Clinkenbeard. - **Three Vigo County Commissioner seats exist** (`Ledger/Entities/People/`: Mike Morris, Chris Switzer, Mark Clinkenbeard). `speaker_94` = Switzer, `confirmed`. The chair-like procedural voice (`speaker_9`) is best-guessed as **Mike Morris** at `probable` by closed-set elimination + role fit, not a quoted naming event under this label specifically — see basis. `speaker_99` and `speaker_109` both show commissioner-level dais behavior (procedural steering, peer address of "Commissioner Switzer") and one of them is very likely Clinkenbeard, but nothing in the transcript discriminates between the two labels, so **both stay `role_only`** rather than guessing which one gets the name. - Per the standing rule: **no vote, accusation, or third-party characterization may carry a name at `probable`** — applies most directly to anything said by the merged the Oversight Board lead presenter group and by `speaker_387` (Chris Himsel). Render those as role-only in highlight bodies unless a highlight-specific `attribution_basis` upgrades the claim.