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From diarize + -ation or diary + -ization, since it creates a record of speaker changes over time.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: In voice recognition, the process of partitioning an input audio stream into homogeneous segments according to the speaker identity, so as to identify different speakers' turns in a conversation. Full definition →
From diarize + -ation or diary + -ization, since it creates a record of speaker changes over time.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.