Microsoft Teams will help you speak in a foreign language during meetings

Microsoft Teams meetings are getting a new interpreter feature that lets each participant speak or listen in the language of their choosing. Interpreter in Teams uses real-time AI-powered speech-to-speech translation to simulate your speaking voice during meetings.

A preview will be available in early 2025 that will include up to nine languages and the ability for the interpreter feature to simulate your personal voice in a different language.

It’s part of a series of AI-powered changes coming to Microsoft Teams. Meeting transcription will soon support multilingual meetings so that up to 31 translation languages will be supported for a meeting transcript. 

In early 2025, Microsoft will also preview the ability for Teams to understand and recap any visual content that was shared onscreen from PowerPoint or the web during meetings, alongside the usual transcript and chat summaries. Copilot will also be able to perform a quick summary of any files that have been shared in the chat interface in Teams, so you don’t have to open the entire file.

Microsoft is also using Copilot Plus PCs to enable a Teams Super Resolution feature that leverages the local NPU chip to enhance the quality of video calls. It could upscale colleagues when you’re dialing in through a weak internet connection. Windows app developers will also be able to use similar image super resolution APIs to enhance blurry images in January, alongside Copilot Runtime updates like image segmentation, object erase, and image description features.