TL;DR: If you want to transcribe Microsoft Teams meetings automatically in 2026, use Teams' built-in recording and transcription tools first. They are fast, native, and good enough for many internal meetings. But if you need cleaner exports, easier sharing outside Microsoft 365, or want to process Zoom, Google Meet, Loom, and uploaded files in one place, a dedicated web platform like QuillAI makes the workflow a lot less annoying. Microsoft Teams can now handle a big part of the transcription job on its own. You can start a live transcript during the meeting, pair it with recording, download the transcript afterward as a .docx or .vtt file, and control who can access it. Microsoft documents the core workflow in its guides for starting and downloading live transcripts , customizing transcript access , and recording storage in OneDrive and SharePoint . That sounds simple, and mostly it is. The catch is that Teams works best when the meeting already lives inside the Microsoft stack.…