{"id":5836,"date":"2019-12-15T09:28:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T14:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5836"},"modified":"2019-12-20T09:42:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T14:42:34","slug":"did-you-know-teams-meetings-now-include-closed-captioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5836","title":{"rendered":"Did you know &#8230; Teams meetings now include closed captioning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you record a Teams meeting, Stream can generate a transcript of the meeting. Great for making meeting minutes or creating searchable content from meetings. But it doesn&#8217;t help someone who doesn&#8217;t here so well *participate* in the call. And the attendee at a noisy aeroport? They&#8217;re stuck waiting for the transcript to be generated. Microsoft had demonstrated a few new meeting features earlier in the year &#8212; background replacement and live captioning. While I still cannot drop the company logo behind me &#8230; live captioning has started to show up in tenants. This is currently in preview &#8212; which means you may encounter glitches. Instead of waiting for a transcript to be generated for a recorded meeting, live captions provide real-time on-screen transcription.<\/p>\n<p>To turn on live captioning, click the ellipsis in the call control bar and select &#8220;Turn on live captions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?attachment_id=5837\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5837\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5837\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Teams-LiveCaptions01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Teams-LiveCaptions01.png 723w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Teams-LiveCaptions01-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Teams-LiveCaptions01-500x410.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A real-time transcript will appear in the lower left-hand corner of the screen. The text is large and easily read &#8212; at least on my desktop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?attachment_id=5838\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5838\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5838\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Teams-LiveCaptions02-1024x609.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Teams-LiveCaptions02-1024x609.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Teams-LiveCaptions02-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Teams-LiveCaptions02-768x457.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Teams-LiveCaptions02-500x298.png 500w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Teams-LiveCaptions02.png 1413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their transcription engine picks up random background noise as interjections &#8212; the &#8220;oh&#8221; in my test, of instance, wasn&#8217;t actually uttered. Participating in a discussion with esoteric terms might yield a lot of mis-transcriptions. But it did a decent job with Z-Wave, DSLAM, and antidisestablishmentarianism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you record a Teams meeting, Stream can generate a transcript of the meeting. Great for making meeting minutes or creating searchable content from meetings. But it doesn&#8217;t help someone who doesn&#8217;t here so well *participate* in the call. And the attendee at a noisy aeroport? They&#8217;re stuck waiting for the transcript to be generated. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[729,666,686,265],"class_list":["post-5836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-365","tag-microsoft-office-365","tag-microsoft-teams","tag-ms-teams","tag-office-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5841,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions\/5841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}