MC1150671 - Microsoft Viva : News AI audio briefing in Connections Mobile

Message ID

MC1150671

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Service

Microsoft Viva

Last Updated

Sep 18, 2025

Published Sep 9, 2025

Tag

Updated message

New feature

User impact

Roadmap ID

498233

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Platforms

Android

iOS

Summary

Microsoft Viva Connections mobile will introduce an AI audio briefing feature providing summaries of top news with playback controls, requiring a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. The rollout starts late September 2025, completes by November, is on by default, and requires no user configuration.

More information

Updated September 18, 2025: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience.

Introduction

We’re introducing a new AI audio briefing feature in Viva Connections for Teams mobile (iOS and Android). This feature provides users with a quick, AI-generated summary of top news items in their news feed, with playback controls such as play, pause, and speed adjustment. A Microsoft 365 Copilot license is required to access this feature.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 498233.

When this will happen

General Availability: We will begin rolling out late September 2025 (previously mid-September) and complete by end-November 2025.

How this affects your organization

Users with the Microsoft 365 Copilot license will be able to access the AI generated briefings in their Viva Connections news feed.

This feature is on by default and requires no configuration.

What you can do to prepare

No action is required. The rollout will be automatic.
You may wish to inform licensed users about the new feature and its capabilities.

Compliance considerations

Compliance Area	Details
Provides end users any new way of interacting with generative AI	Users can now interact with generative AI through audio briefings in Viva Connections.