Live Captions in Microsoft Teams meeting is a somewhat hidden but very useful feature. If you are having issues understanding someone’s speech or if you have a hearing impairment, you might want to check this out. The best thing is… Live Captions are specific to you, and are not part of a meeting recording. Here’s how that works…

I will admit I used to make fun of Microsoft’s ability to do real-time captioning, as the results tended to be… “entertaining”. But a lot has changed since then, and now Live Captioning in Microsoft Teams meetings works pretty well, considering how hard it is to adapt to voices and accents. Here’s how it works…