AI Meeting Overviews: Innovation or Just Another Podcast?

AI-generated audio overviews are going to be added for Teams meetings for Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users. This will start to arrive in targeted release in mid-August and to general availability from late August. More information in the message center with MC1073070.

My first assumption on reading this was that this feature might use the audio of the meeting recording along with some slick AI editing to turn a 60-minute meeting into a 6-minute "best of". But that doesn't appear to be the case, it seems that the overview will utilize the text transcript and presumably just be another place those always-excited generative podcast hosts we have heard so many times before will turn up to tell us what Mary said and how Paul responded in that latest product meeting.

To me, this leads to an important question: Are we getting to the point of too much of a good thing with audio overviews? The audio of a meeting undoubtedly includes context in *how* things are said that you miss in the *what* was said of the transcript. Shouldn't we be looking for AI to help us leverage whatever contextual information we have in the best way possible instead of just turning everything into a podcast?

I will be interested to see what options there are other than "dual-host" and "executive" style as shown in the screenshot, but I suspect that meeting recordings played on 1.5x times speed will still be significantly more useful when you want an audio-based understanding of a prior meeting.

❓ Are you excited for audio overviews of meetings? Is this an AI capability that is starting to feel a little overdone, or is each new option for audio filling you with excitement?

First published on Linkedin 06/28/2025 -> click to view here