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Requires the Teams license and meeting setting for MLSI. Without it, Teams uses the meeting’s configured starting language for all speakers.
How to enable multilingual detection ›
- Open the meeting invite in your calendar
- Click Meeting options
- Under Recording & Transcription, turn on Enable multilingual speech detection
- Click Save
How to set the starting language ›
Teams starts captions in the meeting’s configured spoken language. To change it:
- In the meeting, click More (⋯) → Language and speech → Show live captions
- Click Caption settings → Language settings
- Under Spoken language in this meeting, select your language
When multilingual detection is active, it will still detect and override the language per speaker automatically.
Fixed for the session — mid-meeting changes made by others in Teams will be ignored.
For word-by-word streaming, start the translator before starting the recording in Teams.