Microsoft Teams VS. Tucan.ai: Which AI Tool generates better meeting summaries?

Teams Premium Intelligent Recap is a handy AI meeting feature, but there's one big problem: it only works for English-speaking users and only for Teams meetings. Tucan.ai is the alternative for different languages and for all meeting tools!

What is Microsoft Teams Premium Intelligent Meeting Recap?

The “Intelligent Recap” feature of Microsoft Teams Premium uses AI to automatically provide a comprehensive overview of meetings. In doing so, it should help users save time and coordinate the next steps. Teams Premium customers, who have activated the feature, receive automatically generated meeting notes, recommended tasks, and personalized highlights so they can quickly find the most important information, even if they miss a meeting.

Intelligent Recap is currently only available in English and only for Teams Premium customers. Further languages are to follow in the fall of 2023. However, it is not clear when exactly – in various Microsoft forums, delays and problems with the implementation in EU countries can currently be read out. 

Can Teams Premium Intelligent Recap also be used by companies for meetings that are not in English?

Short answer: currently not. Here are the three main issues:

  1. Microsoft Teams Premium Intelligent only works if all meeting participants have a Teams Premium license.
  2. It works only in English. This makes it useless in meetings where, for example, German is spoken.
  3. It processes your data in the USA, which could be questionable from a data protection point of view.

Is there an alternative for the Teams Premium Intelligent Recap for other languages?

Tucan.ai is the optimal Teams Premium Intelligent Recap alternative.

On the one hand, the data at Tucan.ai is hosted exclusively in Germany, on the other hand, Tucan.ai works not only in English and German, but also in Spanish, French and other languages.

In addition, Tucan.ai offers more flexibility in meeting summaries and lets users define what they want to know about a particular meeting via freely definable queries. Read more…

Overview

Tucan.aiZoom
Microsoft Teams integrationYesYes
Zoom integrationYesNo
Google Meet integrationYesNo
WebEx integrationYesNo
Works for in-person meetingsYesNo
Import pre-recorded audio/video filesYesNo
Meeting transcriptsYesYes
Automatic speaker recognitionYesYes
Customizable to (corporate) technical vocabularyYesNo
Meeting summariesCustomGeneric
Textdocument summariesYesNo
PDF summariesYesNo
LanguagesEnglish, German, Spanish, French, +5 moreEnglish
Works in all countriesYesNo
Data processing locationGermanyUSA
On-premise solutionOptionalN/A

Status: October 2023

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Meeting summaries comparison

Teams Premium Intelligent Recap meeting summaries are based on standard templates. It should be noted that all meeting participants without exception must have a Teams Premium account in order for the feature to function without restriction. If this is the case, and the Teams Transcription feature is enabled, all participants receive a generated standard summary of the meeting that highlights important topics and outlines next steps.

Standard, highlight and follow-up summaries can be easily created with Tucan.ai. However, enterprise customers can also access complex custom summaries. With Tucan.ai one or more custom statements can be used to pull out different information depending on the type of meeting.

Summaries in keywords or complete sentences, the next to-dos, a mood or sentiment analysis of the meeting and much more can be requested. Furthermore, these things can be queried for specific information from the meeting. There are no limits for the user here.

Meeting summaries in Tucan.ai:

Meeting summaries in Teams:

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