Recording a Teams meeting also activates transcription at the same time.

Question

Hello Teams Community

Please i need your help on this.

Our Customer has a strange problem with their Teams meetings. When someone chooses to record a meeting and press the record button the transcription feature also kicks in at the same time.

We don't have exact knowledge if affecting all persons in the tenant or only some. My test account is affected so it's easy for me to validate.

The Customer did activate the feature themselves so we have no knowledge of what has been changed. To my understanding these are two completely different features that shouldn't interact in any way?

Please tell me what to check for in the tenant. Included is a pic of my test meeting this morning when I started to record.

Answer 1

Hi @IBN

When someone chooses to record a meeting and press the record button the transcription feature also kicks in at the same time.

It seems your transcription has been enabled by default. If so, when you press the record button, it will also start the transcription at the same time. I did a test and we also have the same phenomenon.

If you don't want to start the transcription, you could close it by press this button to stop it.

Besides, you could also contact with your Teams admin to disable the transcription when start recording via Teams meeting policy. For more details about its operation, you could refer to:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/meetings-policies-recording-and-transcription#allow-transcription

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