Language Interpretation in Teams Meeting

What do you mean by language interpretation in Teams Meetings?

Language interpretation is the process of managing voice communication from one source language into one or more output languages in real-time during the meeting.

Language interpretation allows professional interpreters to convert what the speaker says into another language in real-time, without disrupting the speaker's original flow of delivery. This simultaneous interpretation will lead to more inclusive meetings, where participants who speak different languages can fully collaborate with each other. 

There are many 3rd party solutions available to integrate with Teams e.g KUDO multilingual solution, which will have integration through API and join meetings as a BOT and professional interpreters can use that tool to join the meeting and perform real-time.

Now Microsoft supports the same functionality within the service with no extra cost.

Enable language interpretation: -

Now meeting organizers can enable language interpretation under the meeting option and choose whose language they want to translate it to. You can add multiple interpreters for multilingual as well.

Once the organizer joins the meeting, you will see a similar pop-up (this option is only available if language interpretation is enabled) and you can choose the language.

If you missed the above pop-up, you can still access it under "More Option" and select "Language interpretation".

Choose the language you want to interpret to and confirm.

You can also promote any attendees in the meeting to a language interpreter, Right click on the participant name and choose "Make an interpreter".

Note : - Language interpretation option is not available for End-to-End encrypted calls.