Our Guide on How to Edit a Teams Recording Using Cleanvoice
Quick Summary
This guide walks you through a workflow for editing a Microsoft Teams recording. You’ll learn when to record meetings, why post-editing matters, and how to clean audio with Cleanvoice.
We also share best practices to improve clarity, pacing, and reusability across Teams recordings.
Need Your Teams' Recordings to Sound Clear and Focused?
With over 1 million organizations using Microsoft Teams, optimizing and editing Teams recordings has become a must for maintaining clear, professional audio in collaborations.
But the raw files are rarely ready to share. Long pauses, background noise, and muddy audio distract from the message and reduce clarity.
In this Cleanvoice guide, we’ll show you how to edit Teams recording using two methods. But first...
Why Listen to Us?
At Cleanvoice, our tool removes filler words, background noise, stutters, echo, mouth sounds, and long pauses so recordings sound tighter and clearer.
Thousands of creators use it regularly, and user reviews highlight time saved and accessible editing without complex software.
How to Edit a Teams Recording
Edit a Teams Recording Using Cleanvoice
Step 1: Download the Teams Recording
Start by downloading the Teams recording in its original format. Work from the highest-quality file available to avoid compression issues later.
Teams stores recordings in OneDrive or SharePoint, depending on how you created the meeting.
Always make sure you're working with the version that best matches your desired final output.
Teams often saves recordings in an .mp4 format, which is suitable for both video and audio edits. By choosing the best quality available, you set yourself up for a cleaner, more professional final product.
Step 2: Upload Your Recording to the Cleanvoice Dashboard
Sign up to Cleanvoice for free and access the dashboard. Once logged in, you can upload your Teams recording by either dragging the file directly into the dashboard or selecting it from your device.
Our tool also supports importing files directly from cloud storage services like Google Drive or a direct link for added convenience.
This flexibility ensures that no matter where your recordings are stored, Cleanvoice can integrate seamlessly into your workflow.
- Drag and drop the file or browse to select
- Click the "Upload 1 File" button to start the process
Step 3: Select the Editing Template and Start Processing
By default, Cleanvoice applies Studio Sound to enhance the recording, but for Teams recordings, you’ll want to select the "Enhance & Edit Lightly" option.
This option is specifically tailored to reduce noise, enhance the audio, and trim minor fillers and pauses, giving you a balanced workflow without over-editing the file.
This ensures that the recording maintains its natural flow while improving clarity and professionalism.
If your Teams Recording is already a bit clearer and has less fillers or pauses, choose Studio Sound. It will mostly remove noise, clear heavy breaths, echo, and reverb. And adjust voice tones.
But it will not remove fillers or mouth sounds or pauses much.
- Here: Choose "Enhance & Edit Lightly" from the template options
- Click "Start Processing" to begin automatic editing
Once the processing starts, Cleanvoice will clean up the audio while preserving the natural flow of the conversation. This is particularly useful for multi-speaker recordings, where maintaining a natural pacing is essential.
Our AI-driven editing minimizes manual effort and speeds up your workflow.
If you want transcription to add it as caption, and want summary as well - use the default template "Enhance, Edit & Summarize". This is ideal for making meeting content accessible for those who prefer reading or for creating summaries for future reference.
It will edit and enhance your recoridng. Plus it will provide you a transcription with timestamps and a crisp summary.
You can even generate content like newsletters directly from your recordings for further use in email marketing or social media.
Step 4: Review the Edited Recording
Once processing is complete, Cleanvoice will notify you that the file is ready for review. You’ll see a detailed breakdown of the edits made, including how many filler words, breaths, and stutters were removed.
You can preview the file and adjust the playback speed if needed. The preview may not always display the video, especially during high usage, but the audio will always be available for review.
This allows you to ensure everything sounds polished and professional before moving on.
Step 5: Download or Export the Edited File
Once you're satisfied with the result, you can download the edited file or export it to another editing tool like Audacity, Audition, or Reaper for further fine-tuning.
- Click "Download Video" for direct download
- Choose "Export Options" for integration with other software
Best Practices for Editing a Teams Recording
Edit for Intent, not Completeness
Start by defining the goal of the recording before you touch the timeline.
A client call, training session, and internal review all demand different edits. Remove content that does not serve the listener’s outcome, even if it feels important at the moment.
This approach shortens runtimes, sharpens focus, and prevents recordings from feeling like passive meeting replays.
When edits follow intent, listeners stay engaged and extract value faster.
Standardize Loudness across all Recordings
Inconsistent volume is one of the fastest ways to lose listener attention. Teams recordings often include varied microphones, rooms, and speaking styles, which makes standardization essential.
Normalize dialogue to a consistent loudness target across projects so recordings feel familiar and easy to follow. This matters even more when recordings live in shared libraries or learning portals.
Consistency builds trust and reduces listening fatigue over time.
Avoid Overprocessing Speech
Clean audio should sound natural, not processed. Aggressive noise reduction, silence removal, or compression can flatten voices and strip conversations of tone.
Apply cleanup only where it solves a clear problem, not everywhere by default.
Preserve short pauses and breathing room when they support understanding. Natural speech keeps recordings human, credible, and easier to listen to for longer sessions.
Build a Repeatable Export and File Structure
Editing speed improves when your outputs follow a predictable system.
Use consistent file names, export formats, and loudness targets across projects. Save a high-quality master version before distribution so future edits do not require starting from scratch.
This practice simplifies reviews, approvals, and reuse across teams. It also prevents confusion when multiple versions circulate internally or externally.
Review Edits at Normal Listening Conditions
Final reviews should reflect how real listeners will experience the recording. Avoid scrubbing only at high speed or relying on waveforms alone.
Play the recording at normal volume and speed, preferably on standard headphones or speakers. Listen for pacing issues, abrupt cuts, and volume shifts that visuals may miss.
This step catches subtle problems that matter more than technical perfection.
Organize Your Edits in Stages
Tackle edits in structured stages: first, clean the audio, then adjust pacing, followed by any final touches like captions or trimming.
This organized approach ensures you don’t overlook important edits while preventing the need to backtrack later. Working in phases makes the process more efficient and focused.
Take Your Video Editing Up a Notch with Cleanvoice
Editing a Teams recording turns a long meeting into clear, reusable content. The right approach improves clarity, pacing, and focus, whether you automate cleanup or edit manually.
If speed and consistency matter, Cleanvoice fits naturally into that workflow.
At Cleanvoice, our platform removes filler words, noise, silences, and mouth sounds while enhancing speech with Studio Sound.
It handles long, multi-speaker Teams recordings in one pass and produces clean audio, transcripts, and summaries without manual edits.
Clean up your Teams recordings faster using Cleanvoice today.
