Click into any Teams message field, press ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows/Linux), speak your message, and AICHE transcribes and inserts properly formatted text. Works in channel posts, thread replies, meeting chat, Loop components, and the expanded compose editor.
Teams has more message surfaces than most people realize. Channel posts. Thread replies. Meeting chat. Loop component fields. Approval request descriptions. Planner task notes. Shifts notes. The expanded compose editor. AICHE works in all of them. It inserts text wherever your cursor is. Posting a channel update, replying to a thread, filling a Planner task description: same workflow. Click the field, hotkey, speak, hotkey again.
Here is the workflow that pays for itself fastest. A meeting ends. You click into the meeting chat, press ⌃+⌥+R, and speak: "We agreed to push the release to March 20th. Sarah owns QA signoff by March 15th. Dev team freezes feature commits by March 12th. Open item - Mike will propose the rollback strategy by end of week." You press the hotkey again. AICHE inserts a clean, punctuated summary. The whole thing takes about 30 seconds. Post it, and your team has a written record before anyone has left the call.
How to use AICHE in Microsoft Teams
- Open the Teams desktop app, or access Teams through your browser (works on Mac, Windows, and Linux).
- Navigate to the channel, chat, meeting, or Loop component where you want to type.
- Click into the message compose box. For channels, click "New conversation" or reply to an existing thread.
- Press ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows/Linux) to toggle AICHE on.
- Speak your message. State your update, question, or response as you would explain it to a coworker.
- Press the hotkey again to stop. AICHE transcribes your speech and inserts the text.
- Add @mentions, attach files from SharePoint or OneDrive, and format with the toolbar if needed. Then send.
With Message Ready enabled in AICHE settings, the AI cleans up filler words, adds punctuation, and structures your speech before inserting. Leave it off for a raw transcript.
Post-meeting summaries
Most meetings should produce a follow-up message with decisions and action items. In practice, most do not, because writing a structured recap takes 10 to 15 minutes and by then the next meeting has started.
Dictate the summary immediately. Click into the meeting chat or the project channel, press the hotkey, and speak through what was decided while it is fresh. AICHE with Message Ready formats it into a clean, readable summary. A 45-second dictation replaces 15 minutes of typing, and the summary actually gets posted instead of forgotten.
For recurring meetings, this becomes a habit. Every standup, every sprint review, every client sync gets a written record in the meeting chat within a minute of the call ending.
Channel updates and cross-team posts
Channel posts reach people across departments and seniority levels. Your team, a director, partner organizations. The text needs to read clearly. No casual shorthand. No run-on thoughts.
Message Ready handles this. Speak naturally: "We finished the data migration over the weekend. Everything went smoothly except for about 300 records with encoding issues. The team is cleaning those up manually and should be done by Wednesday. Performance benchmarks look good, query times are down 40 percent compared to the old system." AICHE outputs structured, punctuated sentences. No filler at the start, no run-ons, no casual fragments.
For longer channel updates, click the expand icon below the compose box to open the full editor, then dictate. You get more room to review before posting.
Loop components
Microsoft Loop components are live, editable content blocks inside Teams messages. Shared task lists, meeting agendas, collaborative notes. Each component has text fields. AICHE works in them like any other input.
Click into a Loop component, press the hotkey, dictate your contribution. Agenda items before a meeting. Notes during a discussion. Status updates on a shared task list. Loop components sync across Teams, Outlook, and other Microsoft 365 apps. The text you dictate appears everywhere the component is embedded.
Meeting chat during calls
The meeting chat pane stays open during video calls. Dictate into it while someone else is speaking. Share a relevant link. Add context to a point being discussed. Note a question for later. Press the hotkey, speak quietly or during a pause. The message goes into chat without unmuting or interrupting the speaker.
This is particularly useful for larger meetings where unmuting to add a small detail would derail the conversation.
Copilot Inputs In Teams
Teams Copilot includes compose boxes in several places:
- Copilot pane in chat/channel threads
- Meeting Copilot in live meeting controls
- Recap tab Copilot after meetings (with transcript)
AICHE works well for high-fidelity prompts (time window, decision extraction, action-item format, disagreement analysis). Copilot answers from meeting/chat context. AICHE inserts prompt text only.
What you get
- Cursor-position insertion - text lands in whatever Teams field you clicked: channel post, thread reply, meeting chat, Loop component, Approval description, Planner task note.
- Message Ready cleanup - optional AI formatting that turns spoken language into well-punctuated, structured messages.
- Content Organization - longer dictations (channel updates, meeting summaries) get split into logical paragraphs.
- Custom Vocabulary - add project names, product terms, or team-specific acronyms so AICHE transcribes them correctly.
- Works everywhere Teams runs - Teams desktop on Mac and Windows, plus Teams web/PWA on Linux or any browser.
Pricing
AICHE Personal costs $3.99/month on the annual plan. Includes a 7-day free trial, no credit card required.
FAQ
Does AICHE work in the Teams web app or only the desktop client?
Both. AICHE inserts text at your cursor in any application, including Teams in your browser on Mac, Windows, or Linux.
Can I dictate into Loop components inside Teams?
Yes. Click into any Loop component text field, press the hotkey, and speak. The text inserts at your cursor just like any other Teams field, and syncs wherever that Loop component is embedded.
Will AICHE send my message automatically?
No. AICHE only inserts text at your cursor. You review the message and press Send yourself. You stay in control of what gets posted.
Is my audio stored anywhere?
No. Audio is streamed to Groq for cloud transcription and discarded immediately after processing, within 1 second. No persistent audio copy.
How does this compare to Teams' built-in transcription features?
Teams' transcription is for recording meetings and generating call transcripts. AICHE is for composing messages - channel posts, thread replies, meeting chat, task descriptions. They solve different problems and work alongside each other.
Result
A day with 4 meeting summaries, 6 channel updates, and 15 thread replies drops from about 90 minutes of typing to 25 minutes of dictation. More importantly, the meeting summaries actually get written.
Try it now: open Teams, find the meeting chat from your most recent call, press ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows/Linux), and dictate the three key decisions that were made. Post it before the details fade.