M365 Changelog: Live Captions and Live Transcript in Additional Spoken Language in Microsoft Teams Meetings
MC280258 – Updated August 24, 2021: Microsoft has updated the content for additional clarity. Thank you for your feedback.
With this feature release, Microsoft Teams is expanding the language support for real-time captioning and real-time transcription.
This message is associated with the following Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID’s:
- Microsoft Teams: Live Captions in additional spoken languages for Teams Meetings – 70593
- Microsoft Teams: Live transcript in Teams meetings in additional spoken languages – 83615
When this will happen:
Microsoft will begin rolling this out in late August and expect to complete rollout mid-September.
How this will affect your organization:
Microsoft has expanded from just English (US) to include the below languages and dialects that are now supported by real-time captioning and real-time transcription.
| Arabic (Saudi Arabia) | English (India) | Japanese (Japan) |
| Arabic (United Arab Emirates) | English (New Zealand) | Korean (Korea) |
| Chinese (Cantonese, Traditional) | English (United Kingdom) | Norwegian (Norway) |
| Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified) | Finnish (Finland) | Polish (Poland) |
| Danish (Denmark) | French (Canada) | Portuguese (Brazil) |
| Dutch (Belgium) | French (France) | Russian (Russia) |
| Dutch (Netherlands) | German (Germany) | Spanish (Mexico) |
| English (Australia) | Hindi (India) | Spanish (Spain) |
| English (Canada) | Italian (Italy) | Swedish (Sweden) |
What you need to do to prepare:
You might want to notify your users about this new capability and update your training and documentation as appropriate.