Teams Meeting Captions : New Updates

Microsoft Teams Meeting Captions is a feature that delivers real-time captions for meetings. The feature is powered by artificial intelligence and is available on the desktop version of Teams. This latest update now allows users to customize their captions by changing font size, font type, and colors. This new update also helps users more accurately understand what is being said by their colleagues, especially in noisy environments. The captions are available in multiple languages, with the list of supported languages growing over time.

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Questions and Answers about Microsoft 365/Teams

• Can you add captions to Teams meeting?

Live captioning in Teams Microsoft Teams provides live captioning with speaker attribution in 28 languages by default. Meeting participants can turn on live captions from the meeting controls to view captions at the bottom of the meeting window. Live captions are not saved for later viewing.

• Does everyone see live captions on Teams?

Teams can detect what's said in a meeting and present real-time captions. And, if you've turned on the new meeting experience, your captions will include speaker attribution—so you'll see not only what's being said, but who's saying it. Note: People can choose not to be identified in captions.

• What is the difference between live captions and transcription in Teams?

To navigate to Live Captions, users would select the ellipses “More options” and then to “Turn on live captions (preview)” when they are in an audio or video call with at least 3 other users. Transcripts are automatically generated when a meeting is recorded, but only if the meeting language is set to English.

• Can you get subtitles on Microsoft Teams?

Note: Live captions and subtitles are only available for live events produced using Teams.