MC260564 – Updated July 02, 2021: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
This feature update of Live transcription with speaker attribution in Microsoft Teams meetings is a written record of the conversations available during and after the meeting and will provide another way to both follow and review meeting conversations. This feature release will roll out on Teams desktop.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82029.
When this will happen:
Microsoft will begin rolling this out in late June and expect to complete rollout in early July.
Note: Live transcription generation when a user starts recording a meeting on desktop client will be available in August.
How this will affect your organization
This update improves the accessibility of Microsoft Teams and allows meeting participants to be more productive. It also creates a more inclusive experience for participants who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, or have varying levels of language proficiency. Participants in noisy places will also benefit from the visual aid.
Live transcriptions will be available in English (US) on Teams Desktop for scheduled meetings under the below licenses:
Live transcription is already available under the below licenses:
What you need to do to prepare
Once admins have enabled this feature, Live transcription will be generated whenever a user starts recording a meeting on desktop client.
Enabling live transcription is required to ensure that closed captions are available during the playback of a Teams meeting recording stored on OneDrive and SharePoint.
Steps to get started:
Previous Microsoft Teams Changelog Messages
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