global Omni context and recent audio are complementary across all horizons;
most measured benefit is dense forecasting and wearer-offset anticipation;
pooled and current-frame person vision do not establish speaker grounding;
a three-seed causal oracle shows that timely visible-participant activity is informative, while identity continuity is not currently necessary.

The draft also reflects two seed-0 exploratory screens reported in ../main/main.tex: no-box full-frame F3 (Table 1) and a global-only chunk-construction comparison (Table 2, panel B). Neither supplies matched visual-motion evidence, endpoint gains, or the pending T/C factorial. The result directories cited by the main draft for F3 and its G+A recheck are absent from this checkout, so their underlying logs have not been independently audited here.

No semantic ENTRY/YIELD, addressee, online-detector, or real-time-throughput claim is made. The deployable matrix is explicitly single-seed and exploratory. The six-group L/T/C/B/H-Q/S table remains in main.tex as an illustrative, unmeasured planning aid, excluded from the page-limited PDF. Its directional statements are hypotheses and falsifiers, not EasyCom scores. Replace or remove every row after the corresponding experiment, including results that contradict the working story.

Build

cd manuscript/targeted
make

The editable sources are main.tex, references.bib, figures/task_overview.tex, and figures/system_overview_onecolumn.tex. Generated LaTeX files are written to build/.

The preview is four technical pages plus a reference-only fifth page. Both the task diagram (Fig. 1) and the system diagram (Fig. 2) occupy one column. The current PDF reserves five numbered result tables: measured deployable and oracle screens share Table 1; L controls extend its first panel. The unmeasured T/C matrix and a separate measured chunk screen share Table 2; B, H, and S occupy Tables 3--5. Pending cells are explicitly unmeasured. Figure 3 is an H/Q case slot, not a selected or measured example. Its cutoff-marked timelines must be inserted only after the slice protocol and case-selection rule are frozen. The single-column system figure is generated from figures/system_overview_onecolumn.tex; the earlier full-width source is retained for comparison.

The build uses the repository's ICASSP 2027 LaTeX assets in ../ICASSP2027_Paper_Templates/, selected by latexmkrc. The supplied spconf.sty and IEEEbib.bst match the 2026 copies.

Evidence sources

results/easycom_encoder_only_1s_4ep_2026-08-28/
results/easycom_egospeak_three_level_eval_2026-09-16/
results/easycom_omni_floor_screen_2026-09-16/
results/easycom_oracle_pooled_wearer_audit_2026-09-10/

The manuscript does not use superseded opportunity-conditioned ENTRY/INT numbers. See REVIEWER_REPORT.md for the internal review loop and the remaining scientific submission gates.