Control the profanity filter in Teams meeting transcripts

Microsoft is rolling out a new Teams meeting policy setting that lets administrators control whether it masks profane words in live transcription and saved meeting transcripts. This should give organizations a policy-controlled option for situations where currently masked words need to remain visible in the transcript.

Currently, the profanity filter is always active in meeting transcripts. The new setting allows Teams admins to disable the profanity filter for specific meeting organizers.

Timeline

The rollout should be completed in October 2026.

How does this affect your organization?

Microsoft has added the new PowerShell property FilterProfanityInTranscript to Teams meeting policies.

The default value is Enabled, meaning the profanity filter is active in all meeting transcripts. This reflects the current default behavior, where profane words are masked with ****** in transcripts.

FilterProfanityInTranscript

Controls whether meeting transcripts filter profanity.

Possible values are:

- Enabled: Filters profanity from the meeting transcript.

- Disabled: Does not filter profanity from the meeting transcript.

To check the current setting or to update it, use these PowerShell commands:

# Get the current profanity filter setting in meeting transcripts
Get-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity Global  | select FilterProfanityInTranscript | fl

# Update the profanity filter setting
Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity <PolicyName> -FilterProfanityInTranscript <Enabled | Disabled>

Later, the setting “Filter out profane words in live transcription” should also be available in the Teams admin center > Settings & policies > Meetings.

Here is a basic example of the profanity filter in transcripts:

The default behavior does not change unless an administrator changes the assigned meeting policy.
The profanity filter setting is connected to the meeting organizer. If the filter is disabled for the organizer, the transcript shows profane words from all participants unfiltered.

This update does not change each participant’s live-caption profanity preference. Live captions continue to use the participant’s existing setting.

As a reminder:
Meeting captions have offered the option to enable or disable the profanity filter since 2023; see Profanity filtering control for live captions in Teams meetings. This setting does not control the profanity filter in transcripts.