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Teams live captions and translation

Live captions, translated captions, transcription, and interpretation in Teams: what's included, what needs Premium or Copilot, accuracy, and the policies.

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Live captions

Every participant can turn on live captions for themselves. Included in every licence, generated in real time, shown only to that person, and not saved.

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Translated captions

Show captions in a different language than the one spoken. Requires Teams Premium, or a Copilot licence in some scenarios.

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Live transcription

Saves a running transcript to the organiser's OneDrive, or SharePoint for channel meetings. Policy-controlled, and it powers Copilot meeting recap.

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Language interpretation

Human interpreters assigned to language pairs; attendees pick a language channel. Included without Premium, set up in Meeting options.

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AI voice interpretation

The newest feature: an AI voice speaks a live translation, optionally in a simulated version of the speaker's own voice. Teams Premium, with a consent question worth deciding early.

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What to govern

Two settings decide most of it: whether transcription is allowed and by whom, and whether captions are allowed at all. Almost nobody should turn captions off.

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