Does the service read the Teams chat?
No. It does not sit in your Microsoft 365 tenant and does not connect to a chat. You hand it the recording file yourself and it hands back a transcript of the audio.
Microsoft Teams to text
Transcribe a Microsoft Teams recording to text
Transcribe a Microsoft Teams meeting: upload the recording and get a timecode on every line, the speakers named on request and six export formats.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps
In short
Upload the recording of the Teams meeting and the transcript comes back with a timecode on every line and the speakers named on request. One file is up to 30 minutes; the free plan is $0 with 3 files a day.
How to transcribe a Teams recording
- 1
Get the file of the meeting
Open the recording of the meeting in Teams and download it, or take the copy that was shared in the chat. The file is what the service reads.
- 2
Upload and let the voices split
Drop the file on the widget above: up to 30 minutes. Switch on the split by speaker and every line is attributed to the person who said it.
- 3
Read the notes in the app
The transcript is saved to your account, one line per segment, with the time it starts and ends. A name that came out wrong is fixed in the editor.
- 4
Export it for the team
Markdown for the wiki, DOCX for the editor on Pro, CSV for the archive, SRT and VTT for the recording. Six formats, and the timecodes stay in all of them.
What you get
- TXT
Plain text for an email, a note or a chat
- SRT
Subtitles for video editors and platforms
- VTT
Subtitles for a browser and a website
- CSV
A table: time, speaker, text
- DOCX
A Word document with speakers and times
- Markdown
Text with headings for notes
What comes back from a Teams recording
| What | Value |
|---|---|
| One file | up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro |
| Price | $0: 3 files a day. Pro is $10 a month paid yearly ($120 a year) |
The case
The recording is the copy you keep
Teams can put a transcript on the screen of a meeting, and that is a good place to read it. The recording is the better place to work from: it is a file, it can be listened to again against the words, and it can be exported with the timecodes and the names of the speakers still attached. Take the recording of the meeting, hand it to the service, and read the minutes on your own screen.
Tips
Download the recording before the meeting room is closed.
Keep the name of the meeting in the file name.
Fix the names in the first minute; that is where they go wrong.
Export Markdown for the team wiki.
Questions this page answers
How is this different from the transcript in Teams?
The one in Teams belongs to the meeting room; this one is a file in your account with the start and end time on every line, and it comes out in six export formats.
Can the speakers be named?
Yes. Switch the split by speaker on before the upload and the voices in the meeting are told apart, so a line can be read as an answer of one person to another.
What does a competitor give without a card?
tl;dv publishes an unlimited transcription (tldv.io/app/pricing, read on 21 October 2026). Ours gives 3 files a day for $0, up to 30 minutes each, and asks for no card.
Sources
- TThe pricing page of tl;dv, read on 21 October 2026tldv.io · checked 21 October 2026
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Drop a recording — the text arrives in a minute
Speakers by name, a time on every line, export to TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV and Markdown.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps