Copilot Meeting Notes: How to Get a Summary in Teams
What Copilot can do during and after a Teams meeting.
Copilot in Microsoft Teams summarizes the key points, including who said what, suggests action items, and answers your questions during or after a meeting. To ask it about the meeting afterward, turn on live transcription during the call. The Recap tab's intelligent recap comes with Teams Premium or a Microsoft Copilot license.
Checked November 2026 on Microsoft's own support site.
How to get a summary
- During the meeting, select Copilot in the meeting controls
- Ask a question, or ask for a summary
- After the meeting, open Copilot from the meeting chat or the Recap tab
- If you join more than 5 minutes late while Copilot is active, it offers to catch you up
What you need
- • Live transcription, to ask about the meeting afterward or see the Copilot history
- • Teams Premium or a Microsoft Copilot license, for intelligent recap in the Recap tab
- • A meeting hosted inside your organization. Copilot does not work in meetings hosted outside it
When there is no transcript
If the setting is Only during the meeting and nobody started a transcript, Copilot has no spoken content to use after the meeting. Turn on live transcription at the start if you may want notes later.
Can Copilot take meeting notes?
Yes. In a Teams meeting, it summarizes the key discussion points, including who spoke, and suggests action items.
Do I need transcription for Copilot in Teams?
Not to turn it on. You do need live transcription to prompt Copilot about the meeting, or to see its conversation history after the meeting ends.
How do I get a Teams meeting summary?
Open Copilot from the meeting controls during the call, or from the meeting chat or Recap tab afterward. The Recap tab needs transcription on during the meeting.
Does Copilot work in another company's meeting?
No. Microsoft says Copilot does not work in meetings hosted outside your organization.
Is there a free way to get Teams meeting notes?
Tools with a free plan can work with Teams. Fathom, Otter, Fireflies and tl;dv all list Microsoft Teams. Our AI note taker guide compares them.