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And then we merge all the alignments from the various channels and we sort them by time. And then there 's a  then there 's a process where you now determine the spurts. That is  Actually , no , you do that before you merge the various channels. So you  you id identify by some criterion , which is pause length  you identify the beginnings and ends of these spurts , and you put another set of tags in there to keep those straight.
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And then you merge everything in terms of , you know , linearizing the sequence based on the time marks. And then  you extract the individual channels again , but this time you know where the other people start and end talking  you know , where their spurts start and end. And so you extract the individual channels , uh , one sp spurt by spurt as it were. Um , and inside the words or between the words you now have begin and end  tags for overlaps. So , you  you basically have everything sort of lined up and in a form where you can look at the individual speakers and how their speech relates to the other speakers ' speech.