Today we're going to look at how to create podcasts
using Microsoft Copilot for those really boring
and long Teams meetings and long documents. Podcasts
create a great summary, the two -way dialogue
is fun and interesting, and spins up a new sheet
with the answer. That's where the magic is, honestly.
We're going to look at how you can do this from
both your desktop and your mobile device from
applications like OneDrive and Word and Copilot
Notebooks and Teams. My name is Shervin Shafi
and I'm a Copilot Principal Engineer at Microsoft.
Welcome to Collaboration Simplified. So here
is the calendar view of Microsoft Teams on my
Windows machine. And you can see that all the
familiar things like chat and calendar and calls
and everything, right? And what we're looking
at is my calendar for a particular day on a Monday
where I had a bunch of meetings. And this one
in particular, Copilot in Excel Tips, was recorded
at 3 .30 on Monday. And when I select it, I can
see View Recap from Calendar Inside Teams. Now,
when I select View Recap, this window shows up
that basically says, look, this is the recording.
You can click to listen to the recording. And
there's also, this is the intelligent recap.
There's notes and AI summary, mentions, transcript,
and there's an AI summary of it, right? And here's
a transcript as well. So this is all things that
have been around for a while. But what's new
is on the top section here, there's audio recap.
So this is where you can create these podcasts,
basically. And you can also create them on your
mobile device that I'll show you in just a second.
So when I select audio recap, what happens is
you get this view here. That says, look, you
can catch up on meetings from the last X amount
of days with an audio recap in a particular type
of format. So this is a format. This is a number
of days. And so you can create a podcast for
the last 24 hours. If you've had meetings that
have been transcribed for the last three days
or the last 7, 14 or 30. And you can make it
so that it is in an executive style. or a newscast
format or a casual conversation. So let's go
with casual for this one. And let's do it the
last three days. And here are three meetings.
You can select up to eight that I'm going to
pick. Now you can make it so that the podcast
is just for one meeting. That's the one you might
be the most interested in or two. But in this
case, I've actually taken a few of my previous
videos like Excel tips or co -pilot tips or autonomous
agents, and I've conducted them as Teams meetings
that have been recorded. So I'm going to select
all three of them and hit generate. Now, this
takes a little bit of time for it to develop,
but essentially it's going to look at all those
meetings and create this audio recap or podcast
that you can then listen to from your... laptop
your computer at your desk but even better you
can listen to it from your mobile device so if
you have an android or if you have an ios device
running teams you can then take this recap from
microsoft teams and then go and drive and listen
to it over bluetooth in your car or you can go
for a walk do whatever you want just be mobile
not tethered to your desk and listen to the recap
the other really nice thing about this is that
you don't necessarily have to listen to the people's
voices that the meeting was conducted in you
can you can listen to these ai voices you can
see that it's still generating this audio recap
it takes a little bit of time because these are
three long meetings but already you can see that
there is an ai summary right it tells you what
this is this is an autonomous agents meeting
and then there's one on copilot excel tips and
you know i talked about python powered insights
and so on and then the copilot productivity is
bookmarking now real quick here you can change
the speed right so if you want it to go faster
or slower or just one time speed you can change
the speed let's do it one and a half times you
can back up 10 seconds you can move forward 10
seconds you can hit the play and You can also
look at the transcript, which if I click right
now, it's in the process of generating and then
it's formulating all these chapters, right? So
you'll see all these different chapters that
it's going ahead and creating for you. All right,
that was actually quicker than I thought. So
it generated everything and you can see all the
different chapters and you can see how long each
chapter is in terms of the timestamps. And you
can fast forward to any of these if you wanted
to. So let's just start from the beginning and
see what it sounds like at. one and a half times
speed which is what i've selected hi sherman
today is october 1st 2025. there are three meetings
on the agenda autonomous agents copilot excel
tips and microsoft 365 copilot tips the autonomous
agent session walks through building a background
ai so that sounds pretty interesting and let's
just switch over to the autonomous agents let's
fast forward to this section over here This autonomous
agents meeting dives into the nuts and bolts
of setting up an AI agent in Copilot Studio.
Now let's look at a few more things here. First
of all, notice that we're actually using this
meetings application inside Teams. This is something
that you can add on to your Teams environment.
And we're in the audio recap section. The other
thing that's kind of interesting is that you
can actually listen to it on mobile. It's right
here. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to
select that. If you like the video so far, make
sure to give it a like and thank you very much
for your support. Grab my phone and scan it and
show you what it looks like when you're actually
listening to this podcast from your mobile device.
So here we go. I'm going to go ahead and scan
this and it's going to launch Teams for me. There
it is. This is the audio recap. Hi, Shervin.
Today is October 1st, 2025. There are three meetings
on the agenda. so again you have this interface
on the bottom you can change the speed you can
fast forward you can look at the transcript and
then here you can actually even fast forward
by touching a particular section of the transcript
and it'll play for you from that point on you
don't have to be the person who knows every excel
shortcut you're just so that's another way of
basically interacting with it which is from your
mobile device and by the way if you are just
trying to get to audio recaps on your mobile
device, all you got to do is open up Teams and
go to the calendar. And if you notice on the
top right -hand side, there's a headset icon.
So when you select that, it takes you to your
audio recaps. And this is where your existing
recaps show up, like the one we just generated
on my Windows machine. But you can also click
plus new recap and generate recaps. And that
show up here, but they also show up on your desktop
as well. Now, since we're looking at my iPhone,
I'm going to switch over to OneDrive and show
you how you can generate audio recaps or podcasts
for a Word document. So let's open up OneDrive.
And here I have a folder where I have this autonomous
agents transcript as a Word document. And if
I select the three dots on the right -hand side,
I can go ahead and generate an audio overview.
So let me select that. And this takes a little
bit of time, but it'll take the Word document
and create this podcast format. Hello and welcome
to this audio summary focused on building an
autonomous artificial intelligence agent using
Microsoft Copilot Studio. Today, I'll guide you
through the main steps and concepts underpinning
the design and implementation of an AI agent
that operates independently, helping to streamline
everyday work tasks with minimal user intervention.
So that's the second place that you can create
these. But if I switch real quick back to my
desktop, you'll see that up on the top, if I
open up this autonomous agents document, the
same document that I just opened up in OneDrive,
you can actually select view more and get an
AI summary. and look at the activity and suggestions
all this really cool stuff up along the top here
but on the right hand side this is where you
can also generate an audio recap or a podcast
from your machine so you don't have to just do
from one drive you can do from word you can do
from so many different places so when i select
that it starts to generate that for me now finally
i wanted to show you if you fire up the m365
copilot app let's do that here you'll notice
that on the left hand side you have your familiar
search and chat and agents and conversations
but you also have this thing called notebooks
now i don't know if people have been experimenting
with notebooks it's kind of new but it's super
awesome and what i've done is i've created multiple
notebooks here and one of them is this channel
collaboration simplified and basically when i
select it What I've done is I've dropped in those
three transcripts from the meetings, the Copilot
Tips and Excel and Autonomous, into the notebook
and using different file formats. One is a Word
document, one is using a PDF format, and the
other one is using Microsoft Pages. Now, back
to the podcasting feature, what you can do when
you scroll up is you can select get an audio
overview of your notebook. So I'm going to select
get an audio overview. And here, you'll see different
customization parameters. Like, do you want the
format to be a narration or a dialogue between
two people? The narration is just one person.
Do you want the style to be professional or casual?
And do you want it to be shorter, medium or long?
And also any additional customization. So let's
just select, let's have a dialogue because I
like to have the two -way conversation. We'll
keep it casual. We'll keep it short. And then
I'll say here, Focus on the Excel tips versus
Copilot and the autonomous agents. And then I'm
going to go ahead and select generate audio.
So this takes a little bit of time. You can see
it's kind of working on it on the bottom here.
And as it develops it for you, it'll eventually
come back and play that podcast for us. Welcome
to this quick chat about making the most of Microsoft
Copilot inside Excel. We're drawing on tips and
walkthroughs by Shervin Shafi, a principal Copilot
technical specialist at Microsoft. So we're in
pretty good hands today. For sure. You know,
the whole idea behind these guides is helping
folks get more out of Excel, like without needing
to be some spreadsheet wizard, right? So very
cool, right? It's giving you an overview of all
the contents in the notebook with an emphasis
on the Excel tips. and if you notice here you
can also customize it and there's some other
options we'll look at in one second as well as
you can keep this podcast so if i select customize
we can change the focus to something else or
change the style to something else and just regenerate
the audio or if we x out of here you can basically
select to keep this and if you notice this more
section you can select that And you can save
this to OneDrive so that you can pull it up from
your iPhone or your Android device and listen
to it on the go. I hope you found today's video
useful. And if you did, please make sure to give
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feedback in the comments and I'll catch you on
the next one.