Team Allows You to Create and Download Transcriptions of Meetings
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- Start live transcription, change transcription language, hide/show live transcription, stop live transcription, download a transcript, share a transcript with mobile participants, delete a transcript, and who can start, stop, view, and download a transcript?
Frequently Asked Questions About Teams Transcripts
Question: Do I need to let people know that a meeting is being recorded?
Answer: Teams notifies participants when transcriptions and recordings begin.
Question: Who can download a transcript?
Answer: Meeting organizers and co-organizers can download the transcript as a .docx or .vtt file. They can also give others permission to download a transcript, depending on the policies set by the University's IT Admin.
Question: What is an AI meeting assistant?
Answer: AI meeting assistants can join meetings, access the transcript/chat/files, and provide items such as meeting summaries, action items, Q&A documents, etc. While these tools can make meetings more efficient, they also pose security and privacy risks by accessing meeting data. See here for more details on blocked 3rd party AI meeting assistants and those approved for use at Mississippi State University.
Question: Does Teams have an AI tool?
Answer: Microsoft Teams has Copilot, but it requires the full Copilot license to create summaries of the meeting. See here for more details on Copiot during meetings.