Microsoft is bettering the way in which its AI-powered Copilot works in Microsoft Teams with new methods to invoke the assistant throughout assembly chats, summaries, and extra.
Copilot is already in a position to summarize Teams conferences, however within the coming months, it’s going to mix spoken transcripts and written chats right into a single view to make it simpler to compensate for conferences you may need missed.
Copilot in Teams is additionally getting enhancements to composing messages in chat, permitting Teams customers to rewrite a message in new methods. “Copilot can adjust your message to add a call to action, or like how a pirate would speak,” says Microsoft in a blog post. “Soon, you will also be able to generate a new message based on the context in the Teams chat.”
Intelligent name recap for conventional Teams calls direct to telephones “will be generally available next quarter with Teams Premium,” in keeping with Microsoft. Intelligent name recap will mechanically take notes throughout calls, permitting you to summarize a telephone name and see follow-up actions with out having to awkwardly take notes.
All of those AI enhancements to Microsoft Teams are small on their very own, however they add as much as a extra versatile Copilot inside Teams. The Copilot integration in Teams is already one of many extra spectacular examples of Microsoft’s AI integration into Office apps, with the flexibility to rapidly recap conferences due to summaries that may even inform you precisely once you had been talked about in a gathering.
Beyond Microsoft’s continued Copilot push in Teams, Microsoft is additionally launching new hybrid assembly features inside Teams which are designed to enhance the expertise for distant and in-room members. Automatic digicam switching for the IntelliFrame characteristic in Teams Rooms is coming later this 12 months. It will use AI to pick one of the best digicam in a gathering room, which could possibly be from room cameras and even laptops. It’s designed to mechanically change the digicam view so distant members can get one of the best view, particularly if a specific digicam is obstructed.
Speaker recognition may even be out there for any microphone in Teams Rooms in an April preview, which is able to allow you to enroll your voice and face profile so something you say in a Teams assembly is picked up appropriately in transcripts.
Finally, Microsoft has some new carriers supporting its Teams Phone Mobile characteristic that permits you to have a single quantity for Teams and your cell machine. “We are excited 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.
