Microsoft Teams Rooms’ AI-powered speaker recognition is now available on all Windows devices.

Using any microphone type, the intelligent speaker recognition technology is capable of analysing vocal characteristics, which the tech giant calls “voiceprints”, such as speaking style, pitch, and tone.

This can help when automatically removing background noise, identifying participants in meeting transcripts, generating Copilot in Teams summaries, and more.

Microsoft announced the news in a recent company blog post: “AI-powered speaker recognition technology has now expanded to all Teams Rooms on Windows devices, regardless of the microphone type.

“This was previously only available with intelligent speaker equipment in the room.

Now, any Teams Room on Windows can enhance meeting experiences with precise speaker attribution and intelligent insights from Copilot.”

“Everyone can be recognised and get the most from Copilot with our cloud technology, Teams Rooms devices such as Surface Hub 3, and other devices certified from partners.”

AI-Powered Speaker Recognition

Without speaker recognition, video and audio feeds are assigned locations instead of speakers, making it hard to isolate contributions, summarise individual perspectives, or address action items.

For example, let’s say one participant suggests a change in direction to the approach they are taking on a project.

If an individual has not enrolled, their voice or speaker recognition is not being used, and a Copilot summary would refer to a participant as “Meeting room 101.”

In order to find out who had made this suggestion, someone would have to spend time searching through the meeting recording to find out who it was.

Conversely, by enabling speaker recognition, Teams Rooms can not only help to identify who is speaking in post-meeting transcripts, but it can also display active speaker names in live transcriptions. This allows users to easily keep a tab on who is talking.

To set up speaker recognition in Teams Rooms, admins simply need to connect to Teams PowerShell and enable speaker recognition for the Teams meeting policy assigned to their Rooms. Finally, enable enrolment for the Teams meeting policy assigned to their users.

Microsoft has supplied associated commands that you can use to perform each of these actions.

For many, biometric data is a serious privacy concern to which Microsoft has reassured customers: “We know security and privacy is of the utmost importance for organisations. Microsoft takes our commitment to ensure data security, including biometric profiles, very seriously.

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.”

“The voice and face data for users is stored in the same region as their Microsoft Teams data, and storage is GDPR compliant. Users can unenroll their voice or face profile at any time.

“Profiles are automatically deleted when a Teams account is deleted or if not used for one year. Learn more about data handling and retention practices here.”

Microsoft also announced that later this year, this speaker recognition technology would be expanded to Teams desktop for bring-your-own-device (BYOD) meeting spaces.

Next year, it says, availability for Teams Rooms on Android devices will follow.



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