This excellent Microsoft Teams feature is about to roll out to more people
More Microsoft 365 and Office 365 licenses will support live transcriptions with speaker attribution in Teams soon.
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What you need to know
Microsoft will soon expand support for live transcription with speaker attribution within Microsoft Teams. Right now, only people with Microsoft 365 E3/E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium licenses can use live transcription with speaker attribution within Teams. According to theMicrosoft 365 roadmap, quite a few more licenses could provide access for the feature soon (viaONMSFT).
Live transcription can identify who is speaking and attribute text to a meeting participant. The transcription appears in real-time during the meeting and is also available for review later. It’s a handy feature for people who are deaf or hard of hearing or people who are in a loud environment.
The roadmap lists the expansion as “In development” and marks that it could arrive as soon as this month, though dates on the roadmap are always subject to change. According to Microsoft, the following licenses will soon also support live transcription with speaker attribution:
Live transcription with speaker attribution is only available for scheduled meetings at the moment, but it will soonwork with unscheduled meetingsas well.
Microsoft Teams can transcribe meetings in real-time. Right now, the feature is only available for a small set of enterprise and business licenses, but it will soon be available for more people.
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