There’s no limit to the numbers of meetings and conversations you can record and transcribe live, but you can only upload 300 minutes (5 hours) of audio a month and audio files can’t be more than 200MB (although that will increase). If you already have a recording (in WAV, MP3, MP4 or M4A), you can upload that inside a Word document to have it transcribed.

If you just want a section, you click the + button that appears when you hover over it if you want the entire transcript, click the ‘Add all to document’ button at the bottom of the pane. When you stop the recording, the transcript appears in the Transcribe pane very quickly and you can copy it - in part or in whole - from the pane into the document itself. You can type your own notes while the transcript is being recorded, but you don’t see the transcription being done in real time (because the text appearing on-screen can be distracting or make people self-conscious about talking). SEE: How to add hyperlinks to a Word document (TechRepublic)Īll Office users can now get transcriptions using that same backend with the new Transcribe feature in Word, which turns what’s said in a meeting or conversation into a transcript that you can use as a reference while writing a document. Developers can use the Azure Cognitive Services APIs to create their own transcription app (Azure CTO Mark Russinovich created a smartphone app to record his meetings a few years ago). There are already a number of options, from the meeting transcription option inside Teams (which only works for the organisation hosting the meeting, but not for any external guests) to services like Otter that record in a browser or on your smartphone and transcribe in the cloud. Must-read Windows coverageĭefend your network with Microsoft outside-in security services Capturing an entire conversation or meeting - so you can listen, think and talk without also feverishly typing notes to refer back to later - is a different kind of workflow. But that’s intended for when you want to say exactly what you want to see on the page. Voice recognition in Windows is nothing new, and Word has had multi-language dictation built in for some time.

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