With the latest Microsoft 365 update, subscribers can upload an existing audio recording to be transcribed or record a live conversation inside of Microsoft Word.

Any student who needs to transcribe a lecture or a journalist (ahem) who needs to take notes on a hearing faces the tedious task of typing super fast and trying to listen at the same time. But now ...

Word is imposing a five-hour time limit per month for uploaded recordings and a 200 MB file size for each recording, but there’s no limit if you directly record audio within Word.