B: do you need to wash your hands maybe paw-paw can help you
A: sounds like you have a little one just like i do [laughter]
B: she's uh she'll be two in July
A: yeah mine was two in December [laughter]

• In this utterance, the speaker talks to a person in the background. Should this speech be transcribed or considered as background noise?
  
  Note that this background speech becomes a topic of the foreground speech. This makes us inclined to transcribe the background speech to preserve continuity in the transcriptions.

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