Miro Talktrack board recordings

Collaborate asynchronously in a more inclusive and efficient way than ever before with Miro Talktrack. Record an immersive audio or video walkthrough of a Miro board and leave it for other teammates to review. Your collaborators will be able to interact with Talktrack board recordings by navigating through the board.

Whether or not you have a Miro plan and regardless of your plan type, you can watch any Talktracks shared with you.

Available for: Free, Starter, Education, Business, Consultant, and Enterprise plans
Available on: Desktop browser, desktop app 
Available browsers: Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge

💡 If you're a Company Admin on Enterprise Plan, you can grant access to Talktrack for your organization in your Feature access settings. Learn more about Talktrack Admin security. 

Best practices

Consider these tips and tricks before creating your Talktrack:

• Refrain from clicking or interacting with board items while recording (e.g. click to play video, click to open document)
  This isn't a screen recording but rather the recording of your movements across the board. Your interactions with the board will not be captured.
  
  
• Be careful with significant board edits after recording
  When the viewer plays the Talktrack, they will see the updated content on the board. However they will still be able to access the original version of the recording. 
  
  
• Consider locking your frames
  Especially the ones you don't want to be altered. Or at least remind your viewers not to move things that shouldn't be moved.
  
  
• Pro-tip: Reserve frames for input
  Rather than asking viewers to add stuff on top of recorded screens, make a frame reserved for their input. It will reduce confusion for other viewers
  
  
• Be mindful of recording duration
  Try to keep board recordings at 45 minutes or less for optimal viewing/ board loading performance.

✏️ When users duplicate a board, any Talktracks will also be duplicated to the new board.

Where can I use Talktrack?

Here are some common use cases where Talktrack is helpful:

• Meeting pre-reads and recaps
• Weekly team updates
• Stand-in recording for meetings you cannot attend
• Onboarding people to new processes or information
• Pre-workshop/class instructions
• Gathering feedback on your board content
• Sharing a project plan or roadmap

💡 Learn how the Miro team use Talktrack board recordings to improve workflows.

How to create a Talktrack

Who can do it: board owners, co-owners, editors and commenters

✏️ On Free Plans, users can each record up to 5 Talktracks.

You can create a Talktrack from the collaboration toolbar in the top-right corner of the board.

1. Click the Talktrack icon.
2. If there are already Talktracks on the board, you will see a side panel containing a library of all the recordings. If not, the panel will show an empty state. Either way, you can click on Create recording to make a Talktrack.
3. Your camera and microphone will be enabled by default. You can disable the camera or microphone or select another camera and microphone.
4. Click Start recording.
   
   Creating a board recording in Miro
   
   
5. As you record your Talktrack, you can pause it, restart, and delete.
   Click Stop as you finish recording. You will see the Talktrack on the right panel.
   
   The option to stop recording
   
   
6. You can rename the Talktrack by clicking the three dots and selecting Rename.
7. Copy the link to the Talktrack and send it to your collaborators. As soon as they follow the link, the board will open, and the Talktrack will launch for them automatically.
8. Board owners can also drag and drop Talktracks to rearrange the order of the recordings in the library.
   
   The options to copy the link, rename and delete the Talktrack

Viewer analytics

Find out who watched your Talktrack recording. Open Talktrack from the Collaboration toolbar, navigate to the recording, and click the eye icon to see the list of viewers. 

The list of viewers who watched a Talktrack

Playing the Talktrack

Anyone (including unregistered users) with access to the board can watch the board Talktracks.

There are two ways to play a Talktrack:

1. By following the direct link to a Talktrack 
2. By clicking the Board recording icon on the collaboration toolbar and accessing all the board Talktracks from there. If there are new recordings since you last visited the board, you will see a blue dot above the icon. Any board collaborator can copy links to Talktracks.

💡Talktracks are available in Miroverse templates.

Accessing the board recordings

Playback controls

The playback experience is interactive: at playback you’re following the recorder's view, but you can also pan around the board and make edits. 

To return to the recorder’s view, click Return to [user’s first name] at the bottom of the screen.

To watch the Talktrack faster or slower, You can also select different playback speeds in playback mode on the toolbar.

Viewers can skip forward and rewind 10 seconds when watching a Talktrack. And when multiple Talktracks are available, you can simply click Next from the player menu to watch the next Talktrack. Viewers can also turn on Closed Captioning from the playback settings. 

Playing the original version of a Talktrack

⚠️ Any content that was on the board at the time of the TalkTrack recording will still be visible to viewers through this feature, even if you have since deleted it. 

Sometimes board content is moved, changed or deleted after a Talktrack recording is made.

To view a Talktrack recording with the original board content:

1. Start playing a Talktrack
2. In the playback controls panel, click the Playback settings icon
3. Click Watch on original board
4. A pop-up window will appear with the original version of the recording. Within the pop-up window, you can play the recording and move around the board, however you will not be able to edit the board content.

Playing the original version of a Talktrack

Playing a Talktrack during a presentation

Play a previously recorded Talktrack in Interactive Presentation Mode. Even when a presenter can't make it to the meeting, they can still present ideas async to the team.

1. While in presentation mode, go to the presenter toolbar at the bottom of your screen
2. Click Timer, voting and tools
3. Select Talktrack
4. The Talktrack panel will open

Playing a Talktrack during a presentation

Providing feedback on Talktrack

We appreciate your feedback to improve on the Talktrack experience. Let us know what you think using the in-app feedback button.

Submitting feedback using the in-app feedback button

Frequently asked questions