This great Teams feature is now available with all Microsoft and Office 365 licenses

You don’t have to have a specific license to use Teams live transcriptions with speaker attribution anymore.

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What you need to know

Microsoft announcedseveral improvements that are on the way for Teams meeting recordings. Starting yesterday, August 4, 2021, Teams live transcriptions with speaker attribution are available through all Office and Microsoft 365 licenses. Starting later this month, live transcriptions will automatically be created whenever anyone records a meeting from a desktop client.

Additionally, an incremental rollout will begin on August 16, 2021 to have all meeting recordings saved to OneDrive and SharePoint.

Here’s what’s new regarding generating live transcriptions in Teams:

Microsoft also outlines changes to downloading and editing a transcript file in Teams:

Starting yesterday, the option to block downloads for non-channel meeting recordings is on by default. Admins can also block downloads for channel meeting recordings now.

Microsoft Teams is gaining new features for meeting recordings. Microsoft also expanded Teams live transcriptions with speaker attribution to all Microsoft and Office 365 licenses.

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