Microsoft has started rolling out a new preview feature in Teams that feels like it will land well with almost everyone who deals with long meetings or has to miss / follow meetings a lot!
AI‑powered video recaps are now available in Public Preview, turning full meeting recordings into short, digestible highlight reels. Roadmap ID 558540.
This builds on the text based recaps and audio recap feature and provides new way of quickly catching up on a meeting you need to refer back to that you could attend.
What I find interesting is that the narrated audio in the recap is an AI-generated voiceover based on the meeting recording and transcript.
Note: Copilot Chat (for M365 Copilot users) can also create video overviews. Just ask it "create a video over of [meeting].
Why Video Recaps adds value
Teams has supported meeting recordings, transcripts and intelligent recap (available via teams premium and / or Copilot) but they have always faced the same problem in that they are linear. If you missed a meeting, or needed to go back to one you were in, you either watched the whole thing or skipped through around hoping to land on the important bits.
Last year Microsoft added Audio Recaps which generated an audio podcast style approach to picking up on meetings which proved really successful but these lacked the video /screen share bits that are often needed to truly recap the key parts of a meeting.
AI video recaps aim to fix this and change that dynamic completely. These AI Video recaps bring:
- Key discussion moments
- Important snippets of conversation
- Slides and screens shared during the meeting
- A narrated visual summary that captures context and sentiment
How Video Recap Works.
Once a meeting that has been recorded ends, Teams will generate (this can take 10-20mins) a video recap. You will see a Video recap button on the meeting recap page in Teams.
One you tap it, Teams generates a highlight “reel style” recap that shows:
- The flow of the conversation
- Visuals shared during the call
- Short clips of the most relevant moments
Video recaps are designed to give a quick understanding of what happened, why it mattered, and what you need to do next.
Availability and Restrictions
The feature is currently in Public Preview, so IT admins need to have enabled preview features in Teams policies before users can access it.
Meetings also need to be between 10 and 90 minutes according to documentation. The meeting must be recorded for Video Recaps to work.
Microsoft hasn’t confirmed general availability or licensing requirements yet. I would expect this to need Teams Premium license or M365 Copilot license.
Whilst in preview. Only English language is supported.
My thoughts
I think this will be genuinely useful. Society is used to consuming and catchup with “stuff” in this fashion and brining this to Teams will appeal to many – giving new ways to stay in the know text audio and now video.
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