By Sean Endicott
Publication Date: 2026-11-05 15:52:00
Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts are about to become more profane, at least if your organization’s admin enables a setting. This week, Microsoft rolled out the option to have profane words appear uncensored in meeting transcripts.
Depending on your workplace culture, the change may have little impact. Other organizations may discover that their meeting transcripts suddenly become a lot more colorful.
The feature applies to both live transcription and saved meeting transcripts. Profanity filtering remains enabled by default. Live captions work differently and continue to follow each participant’s existing profanity settings.
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The release notes do not indicate whether meeting participants will be notified when an organization chooses to disable profanity filtering in transcripts.
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