M365 Changelog: Live Captions and Live Transcript in Additional Spoken Language in Microsoft Teams Meetings

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With this feature release, Microsoft Teams is expanding the language support for real-time captioning and real-time transcription.

This message is associated with the following Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID’s:

• Microsoft Teams: Live Captions in additional spoken languages for Teams Meetings – 70593
• Microsoft Teams: Live transcript in Teams meetings in additional spoken languages – 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.

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.