Microsoft 365 Copilot Transcription Limit Jumps from 300 to 30,000 Minutes

The amount of time you might spend talking to Word or OneNote has just increased 100x.

Microsoft has announced that starting this month, with expected rollout completion in December, users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license will be able to use 30,000 minutes of transcription (up from 300) each month in Word and OneNote.

Given that this increase equates to 16 hours of transcription every single day, for most use cases we can think of this as an "unlimited" cap.

However, remember that these transcription features also accept a variety of different audio file inputs, so what you are transcribing is not necessarily a direct 1:1 match with what you are recording as a speaker. This opens the potential for Copilot users to turn a variety of audio data - maybe audio recordings of live meetings - that live outside of Microsoft 365 into textual data that Copilot can reason over.

Has the 300-minute cap on transcription been a limiting factor for you with any processes? If so, does 30,000 minutes better meet that need?

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