Microsoft Teams allows teams to connect from around the world, and with the latest update to multilingual meeting features, it’s about to become even better.
Thanks to changes and upgrades to Microsoft Teams translations, videoconferencing software users will soon be able to communicate in even more languages and have more productive remote meetings. Language barriers will become less of a concern for geographically diverse collaborators, who can use Teams translation tools in real-time.
AI Speech Translation Automatically Records Meetings in Your Preferred Language
Many companies have already implemented Microsoft Teams to increase collaboration and boost productivity. From features like video calling and chat to supporting secure document collaboration, Teams is a centralized communication hub that helps people get things done faster and more accurately.
However, speaking different languages hinders processes when your business has multiple international locations, vendors, or team members. With the new updates to real-time Teams translations, participants can set their own spoken and translated language and communicate how they feel most comfortable.
The latest Microsoft Teams updates allow for faster AI interpretations. This means that meeting participants can speak in their language during multilingual meetings. Other participants will hear the speaker’s voice in the translated language and see live translated captions of their speech.
For example, if you’re speaking English, but one of the other meeting attendees prefers Spanish, they can hear what you’re saying in Spanish. In addition to the real-time Teams translations, the AI speech translation will generate meeting transcripts in all participants’ preferred languages. After the meeting, you can get a different translation in the Recap tab if you want to change your preferred language.
When the preview of the new Microsoft Teams translation tools roll out in 2025, the real-time voice interpreter will have nine language options. Eventually, the platform will support 51 spoken languages and 31 translation languages.
Additional Teams Productivity Enhancements Coming in 2025
Faster AI translations aren’t the only productivity-enhancing upgrades coming to Teams in the new year. During Microsoft’s Ignite 2024 news announcements, the software giant announced additional AI-powered enhancements that can help save time and allow you to do more daily.
Some of these planned upgrades powered by Copilot will include:
- Automatic summaries and recaps of all meetings, even those that occur on the fly without advanced scheduling.
- Recaps of visual media shared on-screen during meetings, including documents, spreadsheets, slide presentations, and web pages.
- Summarize files shared during meetings to get the gist without opening the files. Only those accessing the file will see the summary with the same sensitivity label as the original file to prevent leaks.
These tools make it easy to consolidate information from conversations and presentations and integrate insights and feedback more efficiently.
Microsoft Teams translations are on track to be generally available to all users in early 2025. They will be available on all platforms (desktop, web, and mobile apps) so that anyone can take advantage of them.
