Copilot in Microsoft Teams will analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting

You’ll be able to have Copilot analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting in Microsoft Teams as long as the recording button is on. The new capability will allow users to quickly ask the AI model to summarize or find specific information from screen-shared content, help in other situations, such as perfecting a presentation, or even suggest tasks and recommendations based on the meeting.

In a recent entry to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, the Redmond-based tech giant says this works for virtually any content shared while sharing the screen, and it’s not limited to documents, slides, spreadsheets, or websites. So basically, it can also look at graphs, pictures, videos, and so on, and come up with solutions.

For now, these capabilities are limited to Teams, but they’re coming to PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard in Teams later, as well.

Here’s what the entry says:

Now, Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting when recording is enabled. This, along with meeting transcript and meeting chat, enables users to ask Copilot to summarize or find specific information from screen-shared content (e.g., ‘Which products had the highest sales?’), consolidate insights across both the conversation and presentation (e.g., ‘What was the feedback per slide?’), and draft new content based on the entire meeting (e.g., ‘Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat’). This works for any content shared while sharing your desktop screen (including but not limited to documents, slides, spreadsheets, and websites, irrespective of platform or app). Support for PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard in Teams will be available at a later date.

Copilot will be able to analyze content in meetings in Microsoft Teams for Desktop and Mac, starting February 2025.

In other news, Teams will let users pop out Chat, Copilot, and Notes during meetings. Copilot is also being enhanced with an Interpreter Agent, allowing it to help users speak foreign languages in a meeting.