MC280258 – With this feature release, Microsoft Teams meetings held in GCC will now have a real-time transcript during your meetings as well as a post-meeting transcript. This will help users in real-time recall what has been said during the meeting as well as review the meeting after the fact.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70593 and 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.