MS Teams Live Captioning

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Teams can detect what's said in a meeting and present real-time captions.  Live captions can make your meeting more inclusive to participants who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, people with different levels of language proficiency, and participants in loud places by giving them another way to follow along.

To use live captions in a meeting, go to your meeting controls and select More options, Turn on live captions (preview).

The option to turn live captions on in a meeting's call controls

To stop using live captions, go to the meeting controls and select More options, Turn off live captions (preview).

For best results:

  • Speak clearly, slowly, and directly into the microphone. As your distance from the microphone increases, captions may become less accurate.
  • Avoid locations with background noise
  • Avoid having multiple people speak at the same time.
  • Use a headset

Please note the following limitations and tips regarding Live captions below:

  • Live Captions are only available during Meetings and Live Events, Live Captions are not available during one to one Team calls.
  • Live captions are only available within the Teams Desktop and Mobile apps, Live Captions are not available when using the Teams web client
  • Live Captions in Meetings currently only supports English

For more information visit: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-live-captions-in-a-teams-meeting-4be2d304-f675-4b57-8347-cbd000a21260

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Article ID: 89423
Created
Thu 12/10/20 9:59 AM
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Mon 6/13/22 1:12 PM