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MC1197146 Express voice enrollment in Microsoft Teams

Summary

  • Express voice enrollment in Microsoft Teams enables quick registration for voice profiles, enhancing features like voice isolation and speaker recognition.
  • Users will receive prompts to enroll their voice profile during meetings, with the feature enabled by default for enterprise tenants.
  • Admins can manage the feature using new PowerShell cmdlets, and EDU tenants are excluded from this rollout.
  • It’s important to review Teams AI policy settings and communicate the change to helpdesk and users.

Primary Service: Teams
Admin Impact: Low
User Impact: Medium
Release Start: 30 Jun 2026
Release End: 15 Sept 2026
Services: Teams
Category: Plan for change
Tags: New Feature, User Adoption, Admin Action

History

12/15/2025 Item Added to Message Center
1/22/2026 The rollout timeline has been updated, delaying the Targeted Release from early February 2026 to early March 2026 and the General Availability from mid-February 2026 to mid-March 2026.

The completion dates have shifted similarly, from mid-February 2026 to mid-March 2026 for Targeted Releases and from the end of February 2026 to the end of March 2026 for General Availability.
2/23/2026 The timeline for the rollout has been updated: the Targeted Release now begins in early April 2026 and completes by mid-April 2026, pushed from the previous schedule of early March to mid-March.

Similarly, General Availability now begins mid-April 2026 and completes by the end of April 2026, delayed from mid-March to the end of March.
3/27/2026 The timeline for the rollout has been delayed by approximately one month for both Targeted Release and General Availability.

Targeted Release now begins mid-May and completes by late May 2026, while General Availability starts late May and ends early June 2026.
4/7/2026 The rollout schedule for “Targeted Release” shifts from beginning mid-May to early May, and from expected completion late May to mid-May.

The rollout schedule for “General Availability” changes from beginning late May to mid-May, and expected completion from early June to end of May.

The affected group changes terminology from “enterprise Microsoft Teams customers” to “commercial Microsoft Teams customers.”

Additional information is included for PowerShell management and configuration, with new references to documentation and configurations such as PassiveVoiceEnrollment.

The document outlines that starting April 20, the PassiveVoiceEnrollment configuration will match existing EnrollVoice configurations seamlessly for consistency.

Technical details are added about disabling voice enrollment and the consequences related to feature limitations, emphasizing full benefits tied to speaker recognition and intelligent experiences.
5/1/2026 The timeline for the rollout of the Express voice enrollment feature in Microsoft Teams has been delayed. The Targeted Release now begins in early June 2026 and completes by mid-June 2026, while General Availability starts in mid-June 2026 and concludes by late June 2026.
6/10/2026 The timeline for both the Targeted Release and General Availability has been updated with later dates, extending the rollout completion date by a few weeks.

An additional option has been provided for users to enroll their voice profile via the Teams global settings under the Recognition tab.

User prompts to drive awareness of the feature will be introduced in a later version, instead of simultaneously with the rollout.

A clarification was made on the application of settings for disabled voice enrollment policies, specifying that the consistent updating of configurations occurred as of May 2026, rather than starting April 20.
7/15/2026 The general availability rollout completion date has been extended from early July 2026 to end of July 2026.
8/6/2026 The timeline for the General Availability rollout has been adjusted to complete by the end of August 2026 instead of the previous end of July 2026.
9/3/2026 Standard end: mid-September 2026 (previously mid August).

Microsoft Message

Updated September 2, 2026: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience.

Introduction

Express voice enrollment in Microsoft Teams makes registering your voice profile quick and seamless. A voice profile enables features such as voice isolation, speaker recognition, identification in meeting rooms, improved transcripts, and enhanced meeting recaps and insights powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot. If you haven’t enrolled, you’ll receive an in-product prompt to opt in and enroll simply by speaking during a meeting. Admins can enable or disable this feature for their organization.

This message is associated with Roadmap ID 537269.

When this will happen

  • Targeted Release: Rollout begins mid-June 2026 (previously early June) and is expected to complete by end of June (previously mid-June).
  • General Availability: Rollout begins end of June 2026 (previously mid-June) and is expected to complete by mid-September 2026 (previously end of August).

How this will affect your organization

Who is affected

All commercial Microsoft Teams customers except Education (EDU) tenants.

What will happen

  • A new voice enrollment experience will be available in Teams. Users can proceed to the Teams global settings > Recognition tab to opt in and enroll their voice profile by speaking during a meeting
  • User prompts will be released with a later version to drive awareness on the functionality and prompt users to enroll their voice profile.
  • The feature will be ON by default for enterprise tenants.
  • EDU tenants are excluded from this rollout.
  • Admins can disable this feature or manage settings using PowerShell in the PassiveVoiceEnrollment configuration in the csTeamsAIPolicy policy. Refer to Set-CsTeamsAIPolicy (MicrosoftTeams) | Microsoft Learn for more information.
  • If your organization previously disabled voice enrollment policies (under the EnrollVoice configuration), that policy will still be in effect and this express enrollment feature will not apply change this value.
  • As of May 2026, all tenants that previously had EnrollVoice set to disabled, Microsoft applied the same value to PassiveVoiceEnrollment for consistency.
  • To disable voice enrollment entirely for your organization, please make sure both EnrollVoice and PassiveVoiceEnrollment configurations are disabled.
  • If you choose to change the default policy setting or disable voice enrollment entirely, users will not be able to fully benefit from features like speaker recognition, transcript attribution, intelligent audio/video experiences, or receive the most insightful meeting recaps and responses from Copilot and agents.

What you can do to prepare

  • Review your organization’s Teams AI policy settings before rollout.
  • If you want to disable this feature, update the PassiveVoiceEnrollment configuration using PowerShell.
  • Communicate this change to your helpdesk and end users as needed.
  • Update internal documentation to reflect this new capability.

Compliance considerations

No compliance considerations identified; review as appropriate for your organization.