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Voice and face enrollment is a feature in Microsoft Teams that allows users to create a voice and face profile. Voice and face enrollment is used to improve the audio quality and user experience of Teams meetings and calls. This feature helps to reduce background noise and secondary speakers and provides speaker attribution and Microsoft Copilot accuracy in meeting rooms equipped with Microsoft Teams Rooms devices. Admins and security teams can manage and control this feature and ensure for which user the enrollment and usage of the profile are turned on.
Users have full control over their voice and face data. They can choose to stay enrolled or disenroll their profiles at any time through their desktop client, even if admins disable enrollment after the user enrolled. See Create Recognition profiles for Microsoft IntelliFrame.
This article covers:
- Enrollment process: Users can use the enrollment process to get started.
- Data handling: The duration that Microsoft Teams stores and processes the voice and face data of users.
- Data retention: The duration that Microsoft Teams keeps the voice and face profiles of users.
- Admin settings: Admins can turn on or off voice and face enrollment for specific users, groups of users, or the whole organization. They can configure the feature using PowerShell.
- Data export: Data export is managed directly by end users.
- Frequently asked questions: Common questions and answers.
By providing detailed information on how Microsoft Teams stores and handles user data, this article aims to ensure peace of mind and control for IT admins, security teams, and legal teams.
Note
Microsoft doesn't use the voice and face profiles of users to train any models or for any other purposes other than providing the voice and face enrollment feature in Microsoft Teams.
Enrollment process
If the policy turns on enrollment for users who are already enrolled, they can update their Voice and Face profile using the Teams Desktop app to make their experience even better.
By default, recognition tab in the Microsoft Teams app is enabled. In the Teams app users, go to Setting > Recognition to enroll their voice first, and then their face. Users must enroll their voice first before they can enroll their face. They can't however, only enroll their face. If a user removes their voice profile, their face profile is removed automatically along with it. However, if users remove their face profile, only their face profile is removed and their voice profile is still there.
Users can delete their voice and face profile at any time using the Teams desktop app, even if the policy for enrollment is turned off.
Supported languages for enrollment
The language of the Teams app that is installed determines the voice enrollment languages. These are the localized versions that are available:
- en-us
- en-gb
- en-ca
- en-in
- en-au
- en-nz
- ar-sa
- da-dk
- de-de
- es-es
- es-mx
- fi-fi
- fr-ca
- fr-fr
- it-it
- ja-jp
- ko-kr
- nb-no
- nl-nl
- pl-pl
- pt-br
- ru-ru
- sv-se
- zh-cn
- zh-tw
Note
There's no language requirement for face enrollment, but you need to create your voice profile before you can enroll your face.
Important
If the language you're looking for isn't supported for enrolling your voice, Microsoft is currently exploring fallback options.
Data handling
When a user enrolls in voice and face enrollment, Microsoft Teams captures their voice and face data to create a unique profile that is associated with their identity. The profile consists of a set of biometric features that can be used to enhance the user's voice in Teams meetings and calls and recognize them in meeting rooms with their voice and face.
The voice and face data for users is stored in the same region as their Microsoft Teams data. For example, if a user's Teams data is stored in the European Union, their voice and face data is stored and processed in the European Union. This ensures compliance with data sovereignty and privacy regulations in different regions.
The voice and face data for users is encrypted at rest and in transit and is protected by Microsoft's security and privacy policies and practices. Microsoft doesn't access or share the voice and face data of users with any third parties, unless required by law or with the user's consent.
Data retention
When a user is enrolled in the feature and has an active Teams account, Microsoft keeps their voice and face profiles. Their voice and face profile is removed right away if they unenroll from the feature. Their voice and face profile is removed within 90 days if their Teams account is deleted.
If users enroll their voice or face profile, they can always choose to unenroll it later, even if the current assigned admin policy doesn't let them enroll.
A voice and face profile that isn't used for one year is removed automatically. The user has to enroll again if they want to use the features.
When a user also uses Voice Isolation on their device, a local copy of the voice signature is stored encrypted. This signature expires after 14 days and is replaced with a new download.
If users leave the organization, the customer data is deleted accordingly with the customer's data retention policy.
Admin settings
End User Enrollment
Connect to PowerShell and ensure you're running the latest version. For detailed instructions and the update command, refer to the Install Microsoft Teams PowerShell article.
Admins can manage voice and face enrollment using the CsTeamsAIPolicy. This policy is accessible exclusively via Microsoft PowerShell and replaces the previous EnrollUserOverride setting in CsTeamsMeetingPolicy.
The new policy includes two distinct settings which are enabled by default:
| Policy | Description |
|---|---|
| EnrollVoice | Allows users to create and manage their voice profiles for speaker identification, transcription, and voice isolation. |
| EnrollFace | Allows users to create and manage their face profiles for facial identification in meetings using supported cameras. |
Admins can turn on or off voice and face enrollment for specific users or groups using the Teams AI Policy. See Set-CsTeamsAIPolicy and New-CsTeamsAIPolicy for specific guidance on policy creation and assignment.
Examples
To enable voice and face enrollment across all users:
Set-CsTeamsAIPolicy -Identity Global -EnrollVoice Enabled -EnrollFace Enabled
To disable voice and face enrollment for specific users, admins can create and assign a custom meeting policy to the users:
New-CsTeamsAIPolicy -Identity DisableEnrollment -EnrollVoice Disabled -EnrollFace Disabled
Grant-CsTeamsAIPolicy -Identity DisableEnrollment -Identity testuser@test.onmicrosoft.com
For detailed guidance on how to configure and manage these settings, including more parameters and examples, see the Set-CsTeamsAIPolicy (MicrosoftTeamsPowerShell) documentation.
Note
The CsTeamsAIPolicy also includes the configuration for Voice Isolation -VoiceIsolation. Learn more in Manage voice isolation.
Meeting Room Recognition
To provide granular controls for IT administrators, there is a separate configuration to allow Teams Rooms to utilize user biometric profiles to identify who is in a meeting room. See Enable People Recognition on Teams Rooms to learn how to enable recognition.
Data export
Data export is managed directly by end users. End users can follow these steps to export their data:
Go to Settings and more ... > Settings > Recognition.
Select Export to download your data. The data is saved directly to your device's Downloads folder.
Frequently asked questions
Question: Regarding the user's voice enrollments, where do you store the data?
Answer: Voice data is stored in the Office 365 trusted compliance store.
Question: Can both users and admins control the data being saved?
Answer: Only the end user is able to export their data. Users also are able to disenroll and remove their voice from the Teams app.
Question: For how long do you keep the data?
Answer: The retention policy is one year. User's data is deleted if it isn't used for one year.
Question: How is data stored and processed for cross tenants?
Answer: We don't support getting data cross-tenant. We only retrieve data for their tenant only.
Question: Are voice and face enrollments available in GCCH and DOD?
Answer: No, voice and face enrollments are currently available only up to GCC and aren't available in GCCH or DOD environments.
Question: Can admins download end users' voice and face data?
Answer: No, data export is managed directly by end users. Admins don't have access to export voice and face data, giving users full control over their profiles.