Transcribe a Microsoft Teams recording
Download the recording of your Teams meeting from OneDrive or SharePoint, upload the file and get the text with a start and an end time on every segment, speaker labels on request and six export formats. Free is $0 with 3 files a day; Pro is $10 a month when you pay yearly ($120 a year).
| What goes in | What comes out | What the price covers |
|---|---|---|
| What goes in | The recording file of a Teams meeting, downloaded from the organizer's OneDrive or from the SharePoint site of the organisation | One file: up to 64 MB and 120 minutes (two hours) on every plan, including Team |
| What comes out | The text, and a start and an end time on every segment; speaker labels when you ask for them | On every plan, including the free one |
| Export | TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, CSV and DOCX | DOCX is a Pro feature; the other five are on every plan |
| Price and limits | Free: $0, 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card and no trial clock | Pro: $10 a month paid yearly ($120 a year) or $20 a month, with fair use of 1,500 minutes of audio per calendar month |
| Where it runs | Our own transcription engine, a model profile tuned for Russian and for the Russian-English mix | A Russian or mixed file is processed on our own infrastructure outside the United States; a file that is entirely in English may go to a cloud speech provider in the United States when that fallback is enabled on the server |
How to do it in four steps
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Check that the meeting was recorded and that everyone knew
Recording is switched on by the organiser or by the policy of the tenant, and participants see the notification. Record only with the consent of the other side — the rules differ by country and we do not give legal advice.
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Download the file from OneDrive or SharePoint
The recording of a meeting belongs to the organiser: in a personal account it sits in OneDrive, in a company tenant it sits in the SharePoint site of the organisation. The meeting recap gives the link, and the download gives you the file.
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Make the file fit 64 MB
Teams writes a meeting as a video file; a tenant policy can also allow an audio-only recording, which comes as an audio file. If the file is over 64 MB, take the audio track out:
ffmpeg -i teams.mp4 -vn -acodec libmp3lame -b:a 64k teams.mp3. At 64 kbps two hours are about 57.6 MB (calculated). -
Upload, split by speaker, export
Drop the file into the widget on this page, switch on Split by speaker, read the first lines, and export to DOCX, SRT or TXT.
Where the recording is, and what to do with it
| Where it is | What it is | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| OneDrive of the meeting organiser | The recording file, video by default | Download it and upload the file here |
| The SharePoint site of the organisation | The same recording for a company tenant | Download it with your company account and upload the file here |
| The transcript in the meeting recap | Text inside Microsoft 365 | Copy what you need; we cannot read it |
| A meeting longer than 120 minutes | Several files | Split it: every part becomes its own transcript |
What it costs against the 1,500-minute allowance
| Your workload | Minutes a month | Where it lands |
|---|---|---|
| 12 meetings of 30 minutes | 360 | 24% of the allowance (calculated) |
| 20 meetings of 45 minutes | 900 | 60% of the allowance (calculated) |
| 30 meetings of 60 minutes | 1,800 | over the allowance by 300 minutes: the API answers with a clear error and the account stays open |
| One two-hour review | 120 | 8% of the allowance (calculated); the limit of one file |
Put a file on the page and read the first lines.
The widget below is the same one as on the home page: file → transcript with timecodes and speakers → export. The transcript is saved to your account.
Drop an audio or video file
or — mp3, wav, m4a, mp4, up to 64 MB and two hours
Transcription runs under your account: sign in or create a free account.
No account yet? The free plan needs no card. Create a free account or sign in.
Questions this page answers.
Can the service read the transcript that Teams already makes?
No. The transcript in the meeting recap lives inside Microsoft 365 and we have no access to it. We read the recording file — that is the part you can keep, export and search.
Where is the recording stored?
With the organiser: in OneDrive for a personal account, in the SharePoint site of the organisation for a company tenant. The meeting recap holds the link.
The recording is bigger than 64 MB
Take the audio track out with ffmpeg (the command is on this page) or split the recording. Both work.
How much does it cost?
Free is $0 with 3 files a day and up to 30 minutes per file, and no card is needed. Pro is $10 a month paid yearly ($120 a year) or $20 a month, with fair use of 1,500 minutes of audio per calendar month.
Will the speakers be marked?
Yes, if you switch on Split by speaker: the voices are separated and labelled, and you rename the labels in the editor.
Does it work for a Russian-language meeting?
Yes. A Russian or mixed Russian-English file is processed on our own engine, which is tuned for Russian speech. Language detection took 0.39 s on a short file in our own measurement of 21 October 2026.
Related pages.
The general checklist for calls: speakers, timecodes, exports.
Transcribe Russian audio to text
What our own engine does with Russian and with mixed speech.
Video files: why the size limit comes before the length limit.
Every plan, every limit, in one table.
Upload, edit, export and keep the history of every transcript.
The live answer base: 99 questions about the price, the limits, the languages, the exports, the privacy and the API, each with the page of this site it comes from.
Mark Vesyoly, Founder.
Every number on this page comes from the service contract, the pricing page or our own measurements. The author of the page and the publisher of the site are the same person. Questions and corrections: support@transcrib.si.