Microsoft Teams Premium or Microsoft 365 Copilot: Meeting transcription supports multiple spoken languages

Microsoft Teams Premium and Microsoft 365 Copilot will soon support meeting transcription in multiple spoken languages. Organizers and users can set their preferred language, enabling inclusive collaboration. The rollout begins in April 2025 for targeted release and will complete by mid-June 2025 for GCC. No admin action is required.

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams Premium and Microsoft 365 Copilot users: We’re introducing new controls for organizers and users set their own spoken language during multilingual meetings, allowing each participant to communicate in their preferred language. Before this rollout, Teams meetings require a common spoken language to generate a transcript. After this rollout, Teams can generate a meeting transcript in each participant’s language of choice. For admins, these features help to ensure a more inclusive collaboration experience for multilingual teams, without requiring extra setup.

A Microsoft 365 Copilot license or a Teams Premium license are required to use this feature.

The user feature in this message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, Teams for the web, and Teams for iOS/Android.

The meeting organizer feature in this message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, and Teams for the web.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 473434.

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early April 2025 and expect to complete by mid-April 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-May 2025 and expect to complete by late May 2025.

General Availability (GCC): We will begin rolling out early June 2025 and expect to complete by mid-June 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

We will support nine languages for both spoken and translation options.

How it works

• A meeting organizer with a Teams Premium or Copilot license can enable multilingual mode by turning on Enable speech recognition in Meeting options before the meeting.
• When the organizer turns on Enable speech recognition, meeting attendees can select their spoken language from the three-dot More menu in the meeting toolbar > Language settings
• During the meeting, if the meeting organizer has not preconfigured multilingual mode, a Copilot user can enable the Interpreter agent, allowing all participants to dynamically select their spoken language.

In Meeting options, meeting organizers can turn on Enable speech recognition:

When Enable speech recognition is turned on, users can select Language settings from the three-dot More menu to set their spoken language and translation options:

This feature is available by default.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified dates with no admin action required before the rollout. Review your current configuration to determine the impact for your organization. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

Before rollout, we will update this post with new documentation.