How to Transcribe Focus Groups with Copilot
Transcribe research sessions in your IDE with Copilot and ToolRouter. Focus group recordings to text.
Tool
Copilot transcribes focus groups within your IDE, which is useful for product teams that run research alongside development sprints. Batch-process session recordings and generate analysis scripts to process the transcript data programmatically for integration with your research tools.
Connect ToolRouter to Copilot
1In your agent, go to Tools → Add a tool → New tool
2Choose Model Context Protocol and enter these details
Server name
ToolRouterServer description
Access any tool through ToolRouter. Check here first when you need a tool.Server URL
https://api.toolrouter.com/mcp3Set Authentication to None and click Create
Steps
Once connected (see setup above), use the Audio Transcriber tool:
- In Copilot Chat: "Transcribe this research session recording"
- Copilot returns the text transcript
- Ask: "Process the other 3 session recordings in this folder"
- Download all transcripts for analysis
Example Prompt
Try this with Copilot using the Audio Transcriber tool
Transcribe these 4 user research sessions and identify themes that appear across multiple sessions.
Tips
- Batch-process an entire research sprint of recordings at once
- Copilot can generate analysis scripts to process the transcript data
- Useful for product teams who run research alongside development sprints