Teams can provide live captions and live transcriptions during a Teams meeting.
Live captions
Live captions display the text of what is being said during the a meeting. Live captions can be enabled by any member of the meeting but is not displayed to other participants.
You can access the live captioning tool in the following way:
- During a Teams meeting, in the top menu bar select More Actions
- Select Language and speech > Turn on live captions
- Select your preferred spoken language
See also: Use live captions in Microsoft Teams meetings (Microsoft)
Live transcriptions
A live transcription feed can be enabled by meeting members who have the ability to record. The transcription can be viewed by all participants during the meeting, with a transcription file also available to view after the meeting has finished.
Live transcriptions can be enabled separately to recordings, but if you require the meeting to be recorded and transcribed then you should ensure both are enabled at the start of the meeting. Recordings are automatically saved into a user OneDrive and live transcriptions started with the recording can be viewed during recording through the closed captioning (CC) button.
See also: View live transcription in Microsoft Teams meetings (Microsoft)
Stream transcriptions
Stream can also be used to generate transactions of recorded teams meeting. You can download a completed recording and upload it into Stream where you can generate a transcription, which can then be downloaded.
See also: Edit or delete a meeting transcript in Microsoft Teams (Microsoft)
