Microsoft Teams: Automatically Activate Captions/Transcripts in Teams Meetings

In this tutorial, we show how to automatically activate captions/transcripts in a meeting.

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1

In Teams, click on the three horizontal dots to the left of our user icon in the upper-right.

 

Highlighting location of three horizontal dots in the upper-right.
Highlighting location of three horizontal dots in the upper-right.

 

2

Select Settings in the menu that appears.

 

Highlighting Teams Settings.
Highlighting Teams Settings.

 

3

Select Captions and transcripts in the menu on the left.

 

 

4

Click on the slider to the right of “Always show live captions in meetings”.

 

 

5

When we do, the slider should change colors, meaning it is now active. We can leave settings and continue using Teams as needed.