Microsoft Teams Recording and Transcription

Written By Ben Peterson (Super Administrator)

Updated at July 18th, 2025

  • The pre-requisite for this feature is a Microsoft Teams premium license. You can use transcription with the standard license, however you will not get the advanced summary features.
  • For pre-scheduled meetings, the Meeting organizer is the person who needs to enable recording and transcription.
  • For ad-hoc meetings, the meeting initiator (the person who starts the meeting) is the person who needs to do this

 

  • Open Teams and start a new meeting (Meet Now from calendar view)
  • Start Meeting
  • Turn the cam off but leave audio and mic settings as normal and click join now
  • In the meeting go to More > Record and Transcribe, Start Recording (this normally starts transcription automatically)