Language Interpretation in Microsoft Teams

Language interpretation in Teams will allow professional language interpreters to translate users’ speech in real time without disrupting the speaker’s delivery. Participants can select their preferred language, and will hear the interpreter at a louder volume than the main speaker.

This feature will allow more inclusive and efficient meetings, where participants who may not speak the same language can fully collaborate with each other without waiting for an interpreter. This feature is available for Windows 10 and MacOS.

How to enable schedule interpreters when creating a new meeting:

1. Organizer creates a new meeting.
2. Organizer adds their interpreters to the invite list on the meeting creation form.
3. In Meeting Options, the Organizer toggles “Enable language interpretation” ON, selects the interpreter they’ve invited, and assigns the interpreters to a language pair.

Participant experience listening to interpreters during a meeting:

1. Meeting Participant selects a language channel to listen to during a meeting that has interpretation enabled.
2. After selecting a language to listen to, participants should hear the interpreter at a louder volume than the main speaker.
3. Participants switch between language channels and listening to the main speaker.

Interpreter experience:

1. Interpreters should hear the main speaker.
2. Interpreters should be able to immediately start translating when they join a meeting.

Victoria Burnett • 2022-Oct-10