Microsoft is rolling out Express Voice enrollment in Teams, a streamlined way for users to register a voice profile by simply speaking during a meeting.
This rollout applies if voice enrollment was already enabled in May 2026 and does not affect Education tenants.
Timeline
The rollout should be completed in July 2026. Education tenants are excluded.
How does this affect your organization?
Microsoft enabled Voice and Face enrollment in January 2025, with the option to disable the setting via the Teams AI policy.
A voice profile unlocks several capabilities in Teams, including voice isolation, speaker recognition, room identification, improved transcripts, and enhanced meeting recaps and Copilot-powered insights. With express enrollment, users no longer need to complete a dedicated setup flow; enrollment occurs passively when they speak during a meeting. In-product prompts to raise awareness of the feature should follow in a later release.
Without express enrollment, users can still enroll manually via Teams Settings > Recognition.
To disable express enrollment, set PassiveVoiceEnrollment to Disabled in your Teams AI policy. To disable voice enrollment entirely, ensure both EnrollVoice and PassiveVoiceEnrollment are set to Disabled.
PassiveVoiceEnrollment
Policy value of the Teams AI PassiveVoiceEnrollment policy. PassiveVoiceEnrollment controls user access to express voice enrollment in the Teams app settings. The default value is Enabled.
Updating the Teams AI policy as needed:
Set-CsTeamsAIPolicy -Identity Global -EnrollVoice Disabled -PassiveVoiceEnrollment Disabled -EnrollFace Disabled
Organizations who previously disabled voice enrollment via the EnrollVoice configuration are not affected by this rollout. Microsoft automatically applied the EnrollVoice Disabled value to PassiveVoiceEnrollment for any tenant that had it set to Disabled by May 2026, ensuring consistency between the two configurations.
