There are a number of different features available on Microsoft Teams that can make your meetings more accessible.
Automated Captions
These are subtitles that translate spoken language into text. To switch on live captions in a meeting, go to your meeting controls and choose More options. > Turn on live captions.
Automated Transcript
This is a written transcript that’s recorded from the audio of your meeting automatically through speech-to-text software.
To switch automated transcripts on:
- Choose Start transcription
- Go to the meeting controls and select More actions ***
- Choose Hide transcript or Show transcript.
Transcripts are automatically saved into the chat area of your meeting and can be downloaded by the meeting host.
Speech-to-Text Reporter
A speech-to-text reporter is someone who types everything that is said in a meeting, word-for-word. They can only be added to a meeting by the host.
- Create and send the meeting invitation as usual. Remember to invite the CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) captioner to the meeting
- Open the meeting invite you created
- Select Meeting options
- On the Meeting options page, turn on the Provide CART Captions switch, and then select Save to create the CART caption link
- Paste the link to an email message and send it to the CART captioner to enter into their captioning software
- Connect with the CART captioner before the meeting to make sure everything is set up correctly
- To use CART, go to your meeting controls and select More options *** > Turn on live captions. CART captions display by default.
For any further help with accessibility in Microsoft Teams, please contact eLearning@tees.ac.uk