Microsoft is improving the way its ai-powered Copilot works in Microsoft Teams with new ways to invoke the assistant during meeting chats, briefings, and more.
Copilot can already summarize Teams meetings, but in the coming months it will combine spoken transcripts and written chats into a single view to make it easier to catch up on meetings you may have missed.
Copilot in Teams is also getting improvements to message composing in chat, allowing Teams users to rewrite a message in new ways. “Copilot can adjust your message to add a call to action, or how a pirate would speak,” says Microsoft in a blog post. “Soon, you'll also be able to generate a new message based on context in the Teams chat.”
Intelligent call wrap for traditional direct-to-phone Teams calls “will be generally available next quarter with Teams Premium,” according to Microsoft. Smart Call Summary will automatically take notes during calls, allowing you to summarize a phone call and see follow-up actions without having to take awkward notes.
All of these ai improvements in Microsoft Teams are small on their own, but they add up to a more flexible Copilot within Teams. The Copilot integration into Teams is already one of the most impressive examples of Microsoft's ai integration into Office apps, with the ability to quickly summarize meetings thanks to summaries that can even tell you exactly when you were mentioned in a meeting .
Beyond Microsoft's continued Copilot push in Teams, Microsoft is also launching new hybrid meeting features within Teams that are designed to improve the experience for remote and in-room participants. Automatic camera switching for the IntelliFrame feature in Teams Rooms is coming later this year. It will use ai to select the best camera in a meeting room, which could be a room camera or even a laptop. It is designed to automatically change the camera view so that remote participants can get the best view, especially if a particular camera is obstructed.
Speaker recognition will also be available for any microphone in Teams Rooms in a preview in April, allowing you to record your voice and face profile so that everything you say in a Teams meeting is correctly captured in transcripts.
Finally, Microsoft has some new carriers that support its Teams Phone Mobile feature that allows you to have a single number for Teams and your mobile device. “We are pleased to announce that several new partners, including AT&T, Odido, Virgin Media O2 and Vodafone UK, will begin offering Teams Phone Mobile later this year,” says Microsoft.
