Dutch is supported
Both Netherlands Dutch and Belgian Dutch. Afterwards the transcript sits with the calendar item, ready to download as a Word or subtitle file.
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Frequently asked questions
Teams transcription
Teams transcribes your meeting. Just not the one around the table.
Microsoft Teams transcribes your meeting, as long as it runs through a Teams meeting. When everyone is in the room, the screen stays empty. Notuly captures every conversation: in-person, hybrid and online.
Available on macOS, Windows, iOS and Android.
Used by people at these organisations.
Short answer
Teams transcription is tied to the audio of a Teams meeting: it works in an online meeting, but a purely in-person meeting leaves nothing to transcribe. Notuly captures every conversation: in the room with your phone, and in Teams, Zoom or Google Meet with the desktop app. Within ten minutes, the meeting report is in everyone's inbox.
- Teams online
- Live transcription works inside a Teams meeting
- Teams in the room
- No meeting audio, so no transcript
- Notuly
- In-person, hybrid and online conversations
- In person
- Phone on the table, no meeting needed
- Online
- The desktop app takes notes in Teams, Zoom and Google Meet
- Processing
- Dutch servers; audio deleted within a minute of processing
- Free to try
- Three conversations per month, no payment details needed
Online
What Teams transcription does well.
Teams transcription is built for the online and hybrid meeting, and it does that well. In a Teams meeting you switch on live transcription and everything said appears as text, with a speaker name and a timestamp.
Handy for anyone who missed it
Anyone who missed the online meeting can catch up on all of it afterwards, at their leisure. Exactly what you want from a meeting.
Speakers neatly separated
In an online meeting, everyone comes in through their own microphone and their own audio stream. That's how Teams knows who's saying what.
Remember that last bit: that's exactly what breaks around the table.
Around the table
Where it breaks down.
Leila takes the notes of the management meeting every Monday. Online, that took care of itself; now the team is back around the table, the screen stays empty. She's doing nothing wrong: without a Teams meeting there's no audio stream, and without an audio stream, no transcript.
One microphone for the whole table
If you do open a laptop to turn it into a meeting, that single microphone struggles to pick up the people at the far end of the table. The quality drops as soon as people talk over each other, and around a real table they do.
Speakers no longer separated
Everyone shares that one microphone, so Teams can no longer separate the voices. If you still want to know who said what, everyone has to join separately anyway, while sitting at the same table.
The transcript in the Microsoft cloud
What Teams does capture ends up in the organiser's OneDrive or SharePoint: a searchable archive with administrator access, at a provider that falls under the American CLOUD Act.
For confidential conversations, that's a deliberate trade-off.
Three ways out
Three ways to make Teams work after all.
You can get an in-person meeting into Teams. All three routes work; each just asks something of you in return.
- Everyone joins separatelyEvery participant on their own laptop or phone, with headphones to stop the feedback. Speakers are recognised, but you're effectively holding an online meeting around a table. Awkward, and it makes the conversation feel cold.
- Facilitator with a Copilot licenceFacilitator's notetaking feature requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence per user, on top of your existing subscription. In regular meetings it only joins scheduled ones; the Teams mobile app can now also start notes for an in-person meeting. Check the current coverage.
- Record and write it up in WordYou record with your phone and have Word transcribe the recording. Word separates the voices only as Speaker 1 and Speaker 2: you still put the names to them yourself, and uploaded audio is capped per month.
Checked against the official documentation, August 2026: live transcription in Teams, storage in OneDrive and SharePoint, Facilitator and the Copilot pricing. On the CLOUD Act: the NCSC, the Dutch National Cyber Security Centre, and ICTRecht, a Dutch legal consultancy specialising in IT law. Microsoft changes Teams, Facilitator and the licences regularly; check the current situation in your own environment.
The way out
The table doesn't need a video call.
Here's how that same Monday looks different for Leila. At ten to nine the management team sits down. Leila puts her phone in the middle of the table and taps record. That's all she does: she joins the conversation, she weighs in, she doesn't type.
An hour later she stops the recording. Within ten minutes, the report is in everyone's inbox: the summary, the decisions and the action points, each with a name and a deadline. Sam circulates the plan on Friday, Daniël posts the vacancy on Monday.
Notuly is the AI notetaker for every conversation. Discreet in-person, hybrid and online. Someone joining remotely, or is the meeting running through Teams after all? Then you start the desktop app on your laptop and Notuly takes the notes as usual, with no bot in the meeting. One tool for every conversation. For the step-by-step, see how it works.
Share the action points from the meeting with Leila
Notuly understands 90+ languages; your report comes in Dutch or English.
Speakers
DDaniël
SSam✦ Recognised by Notuly
+Add who you heard
Number of speakers−3+
Automatic speaker recognition, without storing any voices.
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Teams or Notuly?
It's not a matter of Teams for online and Notuly for the table. Teams transcription is strong once the discussion runs through a Teams meeting and everything is allowed to stay inside your Microsoft 365 environment. If that's how your meetings already run, you don't have to change a thing.
Notuly works wherever you have the conversation: in-person, hybrid and online. In the room, your phone is enough, and in Teams, Zoom or Google Meet the desktop app takes the notes straight from your laptop. No bot joining your meeting, no searchable archive: the report lands in your inbox and the audio is deleted within a minute of processing. There's more on the sovereignty side at keep your data in the EU.
The full comparison with Microsoft, feature by feature: Notuly vs Copilot.
How it works
From meeting to report in three steps.
No settings, no training, no IT department. You can make your first report straight after downloading.
Record
Around the table? Put your phone in the middle and press record. Is the meeting running in Teams, Zoom or Google Meet? Start the desktop app on your laptop. That's all the preparation there is.
Process
Notuly processes the audio on its own servers in Amsterdam and recognises who's speaking: up to 32 speakers in a single conversation, in more than 90 languages.
Receive
Within ten minutes, everyone has the report with the decisions and action points in their inbox. By then the audio has already been deleted.
On all your devices
Also on macOS and Windows.
Meeting on Teams, Zoom or Google Meet? The desktop app takes the notes straight from your laptop. And the iPhone and Android apps capture every conversation on the go.
Choose your plan.
Starter
Free
- 3 conversations per month
- 60 minutes per recording
- Report with summary and action points
- Conversation type detection
- Dutch servers, nothing kept
Pro
€9.99 / month
- Everything in Starter
- Unlimited conversations
- Unlimited recording length
- Up to 32 speakers
- Word file (.docx)
- Choose from the Notuly templates
Team
€10.99 / licence / month
- Everything in Pro
- Your own branding in the Word file
- Create your own templates
- Team management with roles
- One central invoice
- Priority support
- Data processing agreement
Fourteen days free
Enterprise
Custom
- Everything in Team
- Personal account manager
- SSO (single sign-on)
- Custom DPA
- Volume discount
Starter & Pro: prices incl. VAT · Team & Enterprise: prices excl. VAT
We don't store your conversations.
The audio is deleted within a minute of processing. Once your report has been sent, we no longer hold your data. What we don't keep can't leak.
Our own servers in AmsterdamAn ISO 27001-certified data centre. Your data never leaves the EU.
Our own AI modelSelf-hosted in the EU. No Big Tech anywhere in the process.
No training on your conversationsWhat's said stays yours.
Data processing agreement (GDPR)Available to organisations, on Team and above.
We work in line with:
ISO 27001.
We work in line with ISO standards. Our data servers run in an ISO 27001-certified data centre in Amsterdam.
Frequently asked questions.
Can Microsoft Teams transcribe an in-person meeting?+
Not if it's purely in person. Teams transcription is tied to the audio of a Teams meeting, so without a meeting running there's nothing to transcribe. You can work around it by having everyone join separately, but then you're effectively holding an online meeting around a table.
Does Teams transcription work without an online meeting?+
No. Live transcription and captions listen to the meeting audio, not to the room. No meeting means no transcript.
How do I transcribe a meeting in a meeting room with Teams?+
By turning the in-person meeting into a Teams meeting anyway: everyone joins on their own device with their own microphone, or you use a Teams Room with certified equipment. That works best in a quiet room, and it takes extra hardware or licences.
Does Teams support Dutch transcription?+
Yes. Teams supports Dutch for live transcription, in both Netherlands Dutch and Belgian Dutch. The quality does depend on the microphone, the distance to the speaker and whether people talk over each other.
Does Teams tell the speakers around the table apart?+
Only if each speaker comes in through their own audio stream, so only if everyone has joined separately. If people share a laptop microphone, Teams can't tell them apart.
Where is a Teams transcript stored?+
In the organiser's OneDrive for Business, or in SharePoint for a channel meeting. The transcript is governed by the access rights and retention policy of your Microsoft 365 environment, and is searchable within it.
Do I need a paid licence for Teams notes of an in-person meeting?+
For Facilitator's mobile notetaking feature you do: it requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence per user. Microsoft keeps expanding Facilitator, so check the current coverage for use around the table. Live transcription itself is built into Teams, but only works inside a meeting.
Is a Teams transcript safe for confidential conversations?+
Within your own tenant a Teams transcript is reasonably shielded, but it sits in a searchable archive with administrator access, and the provider falls under the American CLOUD Act. For sensitive conversations, that's a trade-off you need to make deliberately.
What's the best alternative to Teams for an in-person meeting?+
An app that works without a meeting, like Notuly: your phone on the table, multiple speakers from a single recording, and the audio is deleted within a minute of processing. That way you capture the meeting without turning it into an online one. And if the meeting does run through Teams, the desktop app simply takes the notes.
Can Notuly capture my Teams meeting too?+
Yes. The desktop app for macOS and Windows takes the notes straight from your laptop in Teams, Zoom and Google Meet. No bot joining your meeting; Notuly works in the background. Afterwards, the report with the decisions and action points is in everyone's inbox.
Does Notuly work for a hybrid meeting too?+
Yes. Notuly works in-person, hybrid and online. In a hybrid meeting, the desktop app runs on the laptop hosting the meeting and picks up the room as well as the remote participants. Notuly recognises up to 32 speakers in a single conversation.
What does Notuly cost?+
Starter is free: three conversations per month, no payment details needed. Pro gives you unlimited conversations for a fixed monthly price; Team is billed per licence, with one invoice. The current prices are further up this page.
Read next.
Notuly vs Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft Copilot and Notuly side by side, feature by feature.Microsoft Teams meeting notesThe broader route, and which licence it takes.Transcribing a conversationFrom recording to text, with all the options in one place.Secure notetakingHow to check the privacy of a notetaking tool yourself.Keep your data in the EUThe CLOUD Act, and why EU servers don't solve everything.Automatic meeting notesHow AI turns your recording into a report with the decisions.
Meeting around the table? Bring your phone along.
No meeting to set up, no joining separately. The report with the decisions and action points is in your inbox within ten minutes, and the audio is deleted within a minute of processing. Three conversations free, no payment details needed.