diff --git a/Ten31Transcripts/Visual/GridCallAnalyzer.swift b/Ten31Transcripts/Visual/GridCallAnalyzer.swift
index c62023a..56b17d2 100644
--- a/Ten31Transcripts/Visual/GridCallAnalyzer.swift
+++ b/Ten31Transcripts/Visual/GridCallAnalyzer.swift
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ struct GridCallAnalyzer {
 
     func analyze(cgImage: CGImage, at t: TimeInterval) -> [SpeakerObservation] {
         let texts = recognizer.recognize(in: cgImage).filter {
-            $0.confidence >= config.minTextConfidence && !cleaned($0.text).isEmpty
+            $0.confidence >= config.minTextConfidence && Self.isLikelyName(cleaned($0.text))
         }
         guard !texts.isEmpty, let sampler = FrameSampler(cgImage: cgImage) else { return [] }
         let w = cgImage.width, h = cgImage.height
@@ -137,8 +137,29 @@ struct GridCallAnalyzer {
     }
 
     private func cleaned(_ s: String) -> String {
-        let t = s.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
-        return t.count <= config.maxNameLength ? t : ""
+        s.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
+    }
+
+    /// True if `s` looks like a participant name label rather than UI chrome. Call
+    /// UIs are full of text (meeting URLs, the clock, "Add others", lobby dialogs)
+    /// that OCR would otherwise treat as speakers. Participant labels are short,
+    /// Title-Cased, 1–3 alphabetic words with no digits/URL/email punctuation.
+    /// Derived from real Meet/Zoom captures; errs toward dropping (a missed name
+    /// just means no visual hint — the backend still diarizes from audio).
+    static func isLikelyName(_ s: String) -> Bool {
+        guard s.count >= 2, s.count <= 30 else { return false }
+        // Reject URLs, emails, meeting codes, times, button glyphs.
+        if s.rangeOfCharacter(from: CharacterSet(charactersIn: "@:/\\|+*=<>#0123456789")) != nil {
+            return false
+        }
+        let words = s.split(separator: " ")
+        guard (1...3).contains(words.count) else { return false }
+        let allowed = CharacterSet.letters.union(CharacterSet(charactersIn: "'.-"))
+        for w in words {
+            guard let first = w.first, first.isUppercase else { return false }   // Title Case
+            if String(w).unicodeScalars.contains(where: { !allowed.contains($0) }) { return false }
+        }
+        return true
     }
 
     private static let ciContext = CIContext()
diff --git a/Ten31TranscriptsTests/GridCallAnalyzerTests.swift b/Ten31TranscriptsTests/GridCallAnalyzerTests.swift
index a6337d9..2f192ec 100644
--- a/Ten31TranscriptsTests/GridCallAnalyzerTests.swift
+++ b/Ten31TranscriptsTests/GridCallAnalyzerTests.swift
@@ -135,6 +135,19 @@ final class GridCallAnalyzerTests: XCTestCase {
         XCTAssertTrue(obs.filter { $0.speaking }.isEmpty)
     }
 
+    func testNameFilterAgainstRealMeetOCR() {
+        // The exact strings OCR pulled from a real Meet session — only the first
+        // group are participants; the rest are UI chrome that must NOT become speakers.
+        let names = ["Grant Gilliam", "Caitlyn Viggiano", "Cait's Phone", "Grant", "Me"]
+        let junk = ["11:43 AM | rvo-rmjg-rdq", "@ Embassy Er", "Admit 1 guest",
+                    "Joined as grant.gilliam@gmail.com", "Others may see your video differently",
+                    "Others might still see your full video.", "Your meeting's ready", "efforot",
+                    "g* Add others", "g+ Add others", "meet.google.com/rvo-rmjg-rdq",
+                    "permission before they can join.", "the meeting", "G"]
+        for n in names { XCTAssertTrue(GridCallAnalyzer.isLikelyName(n), "should keep name: \(n)") }
+        for j in junk { XCTAssertFalse(GridCallAnalyzer.isLikelyName(j), "should drop junk: \(j)") }
+    }
+
     func testWhiteBorderDetectorIgnoresColouredBorder() {
         // Signal looks only for the white border, so a coloured (Meet) border must
         // not register as a Signal speaker.