Microsoft Teams logo with a sample live caption

Video and audio calls on Microsoft Teams tin be challenging if you or someone else has poor audio. However, yous can turn on the Live Captions feature, saving you lot from asking people to repeat themselves during a call. Hither's how.

With Alive Captions enabled for your team in the Microsoft Teams app, text appears as real-time captions or transcripts of participants speaking during a video or sound phone call. You won't accept to ask people to echo themselves so often, and it will appear only on your screen—not on the other call participants' screens.

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When the call ends, the Teams app deletes the live captions data automatically. That way, you lot don't take to worry about someone else accessing information technology.

At the time of writing in June 2021, the Live Captions are only available in English (U.S.). Yet, Microsoft plans to add back up for more languages in the time to come.

Here'southward how to enable or disable the Live Captions in Microsoft Teams on your computer.

Turn Live Captions on or off in the Microsoft Teams App

The desktop app for Microsoft Teams has the Alive Captions selection nestled inside the settings, and it'south usable but when calls are in progress.

During a video or audio call, click on the three-dot "More Deportment" icon at the meridian of the call window.

Select "Turn on Live Captions."

Select the Turn on live captions option.

Y'all'll go a confirmation stating that the spoken language for the live captions is set to English (The states).

Confirmation prompt for the spoken language set to English (United States).

Later on that, you'll run across the live captions appear in the lower part of the call window.

Live Captions appear with the name of the speaker during the call.

To disable the Alive Captions, click on the 3-dot "More Actions" icon at the top of the call window.

Then, select "Turn off live captions."

Select Turn off Live Captions and they won't appear during a call.

Hide Your Proper noun in Live Captions

By default, the Alive Captions feature identifies and shows the speaker's proper name before the captions. That helps you know who's proverb what. Still, if yous don't want the Teams app to identify you, you tin prevent your name from actualization in captions.

Open the Microsoft Teams app and click the three-dot Settings icon at the top of the window.

Select "Settings."

Select Settings option from the context menu.

Click the "Captions and Transcripts" section on the left-manus side and turn off the toggle next to "Automatically place me in the meeting and transcripts."

Select Captions and Transcript on the left-hand side and turn off the toggle for automatically identify on the right-hand side.

Press Esc to close the Settings window.

That'due south all information technology takes to make full utilize of the Live Captions feature in Microsoft Teams. Don't forget to close Teams completely after your meeting and so that you can relieve on resources.

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