These new updates to Microsoft Teams might actually help make it a smarter work companion
Better translation and quick summaries coming to Microsoft Teams
· TechRadarNews By Mike Moore published 19 November 2024
- Microsoft Teams is upgrading its translation tools
- Up to 51 spoken and 31 translation languages now on offer
- Copilot-generated file summaries also coming to boost productivity
Connecting with colleagues, customers, and friends across the world is set to get much simpler thanks to a significant update to Microsoft Teams.
The video conferencing service has revealed it will be introducing transcription for multi-lingual meetings, supporting more languages than ever, even when it comes to meeting recaps.
Revealed as part of Microsoft's Ignite 2024 event news announcements, the news will also see an improved version of document summaries, generated and supplied by Copilot, to help users stay on track with their chats.
Microsoft Teams translation
Microsoft says the upgraded transcription and translation software features will help break down language barriers and facilitate improved collaboration among global teams.
Users will be able to select one of 51 spoken languages and one of the 31 translation languages on offer, with the meeting transcript able to record and supply the whole conversation, no matter what language is spoken.
The feature, which is coming in 2025 for Microsoft Teams desktop, web, and mobile apps, will also see live translations for captions and live transcripts supported.
Users will also receive an automatically-generated meeting recap supplied in whatever language they chose, after the meeting has ended, and can even alter the translation language via the Recap tab.
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