The captions and transcript language will change for all meeting participants. When you change the spoken language setting, it affects everyone. This is not doing a translation but instead telling the speech to text engine which language is being used to better interpret and display it in the correct language. Microsoft ASR involves no human intervention, and no one can access the meeting audio or any other meeting information at any time. Caption data can’t be downloaded and is permanently deleted after the meeting is over.Ī meeting organizer or caller can enable it by going to the meeting controls, selecting the three dots, and then “Turning on live captions.” Turn on live captions in a Teams call or meeting Microsoft Teams Live Captionsĭesktop users can change the language. Live captions use the Microsoft Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology service, which generates Teams meeting captions. Microsoft Live Captions shows, as the name suggests, real-time speech to text in a meeting speech at the bottom of the video window. Microsoft Teams also supports CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation), human-generated live captioning.

This blog will help you understand them and which to use.

Microsoft Teams offers both Live Captions and transcription.

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