Audio and video calls in Microsoft Teams can be challenging if you or someone else has poor audio. Despite this, can enable Live Caption function, which prevents you from asking people to repeat themselves during a call. That's how.
With live captions enabled for your team in the Microsoft Teams app, text appears as captions or real-time transcripts of members speaking during an audio or video call. You won't have to ask people to repeat themselves as often, and it will only appear on your screen, not on the screens of the other members of the call.
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When the call ends, Teams app automatically deletes live caption data. That way, you don't have to worry about someone else accessing it.
At the time of writing this post in June 2021, live subtitles are only available in English (EE. UU.). Despite this, Microsoft plans to add support for more languages in the future.
Then, explains how to enable or disable live captions in Microsoft Teams on your computer.
Turn Live Captions on or off in the Microsoft Teams app
The desktop application for Microsoft Teams has the Live Captions option located within the settings, and can only be used when calls are in progress.
During a video or audio call, click on the three dots icon “More Actions” at the top of the call window.
Choose “Enable live captions”.
You will receive a confirmation that the spoken language for live captions is set to English (USA).
Thereafter, you will see live captions appear at the bottom of the call window.
To disable live captions, click the three dots icon “More Actions” at the top of the call window.
After, select “Turn off live captions”.
Hide your name in live captions
By default, live captioning feature identifies and displays the speaker's name before captions. That helps you know who says what. Despite this, if you don't want the Teams app to identify you, can prevent your name from appearing in subtitles.
Open the Microsoft Teams application and click the three-dot settings icon at the top of the window.
Please select “Setting”.
Click on the section “Subtitles and transcripts” on the left side and deactivate the lever next to “Automatically identify me in meeting and transcripts”.
Press Esc to close the Settings window.
That's all it takes to make full use of the Live Captions feature in Microsoft Teams.. Don't forget to close Teams completely after your meeting so you can save resources.
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