When streaming/recording, what's the general consensus about talking over your recording?

I see not many do it, and I don't know if that's cause they're concentrating too much, simply don't want to or it isn't the done thing when speed running.

Admittedly most of mine would just be an endless string of swear words and moans, so probably wouldn't want to anyway, just curious.

I usually just chat away unless I get a really good pace going. Once that happens, I go into "super cereal" mode and my chat understands. I'll still make comments here and there but I talk significantly less.

One thing that had me wondering was seeing people use sound patterns as evidence of cheating, and thought it might be hard to use that as evidence if you're talking over it.

Not that I'm thinking of cheating...

Honestly it's just a preference thing, some people like to talk, and some others don't. It's kinda the same for viewers, some of them like it and some other ones can't stand hearing people talk over the game.

As for cheating, from what i've seen, if you have the knowledge it shouldn't matter too much if there's voice or not.

the changes in soundpattern that indicate a splice can still be found, even with mic audio merged on top of the game capture. It's just a tiny bit harder, but that isn't an issue at all if someone already goes to such detail to analyze a run.

You find a flow to it. If you have to focus hard on what's going on, you're likely not going to speak. If there's a slow/boring section, it's easier to talk and babble. For me, it depends on my mood, the pace of the run, what my commentary can add (humor, entertainment, information, etc.), and chat activity. Usually, if I don't feel like talking at all I will do offline runs.

I think it's mostly because once people get on a good run they stop chatting because it's distracting and they concentrate. You see a lot of runs that start out casual and chatty but once they get past a certain trouble spot they go silent.

Personally I just gibber to myself constantly all the time anyway. I don't think it's an issue, there's plenty of top runs with runners talking, swearing, singing, etc.