Goodbye to translators: Microsoft will allow you to speak in other languages ​​in Teams thanks to AI

Microsoft Teams It is a unified communication platform for companies or organizations. This application is a “workspace designed for real-time collaboration and communication, meetings and file sharing,” according to the Redmond company in its official website.

But what uses does Microsoft Teams have? This tool serves to bring workers together in the same conversation group, allows you to make calls or video calls to members of the same group or external clients, allows you to share files and offers the possibility of organizing online meetings, among other of its extensive services. Furthermore, although it has a paid plan that has more features, most of them are free.

However, to expand the catalog of functionalities, Microsoft Teams will incorporate an interpreter in meetings so that each participant can speak or listen to the language of their choice. Likewise, this novelty will use voice-to-speech translation powered by artificial intelligence (AI) in real timein this way, it will simulate the individual’s voice during meetings.

A preview will be available early next year that will include up to nine languages ​​and the ability for the interpreter feature simulate a personal voice in a different language, taking into account that meeting transcription will soon support multilingual meetings, so they will be supported up to 31 translation languages for the transcription of a meeting.

Separately, looking ahead to 2025, Microsoft will preview Teams’ ability to understand and summarize any visual content that’s been shared on screen from the web during meetings, along with the usual chat transcripts and summaries.