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🔊How to use Language Interpretation in Microsoft Teams [Real-Time Translation]
GiulianoDeLuca Is there a way to turn off the main speaker audio so that the audience who selected the interpretation does not hear both speaker and interpreter at the same time? It's kind of confusing to hear 2 people talking at the same time.
The speaker star to talk for 1 minute for example and then he/she waits that the interpreters finish to talk and to translate to start talking again.
- As we are doing a real time interview, the speakers would not be able to pause for the interpreters to finish talking. The speakers are also unable to hear the interpreters so it would be a guessing game for them to know when to continue talking. It would be good to have the feature to mute the speakers for everyone except the interpreters. The audience can just select the audio track they need.
- I don't know if you already started to use this feature, but the interpreter audio is set to be louder than the speaker audio.
In any case I got your point of view and I think this is good feedback to improve the feature.Language interpretation as implemented in Teams is only useful in 1 direction, much like an ASL interpreter at a political speach. Many real world scenarios require the interpreter to translate "both ways". For example, a non-english speaking person at a court hearing. They need to hear the interpreter, but then the interpreter needs to translate back to the court magistrate what the non-English speaker is saying. A potential workaround for this is to set up more than one interpreting "Language" channels for the Teams session. One channel would be selected by the non-English speaker and the other channel by the magistrate. The single interpreter would need the ability to switch language interpretation roles while in the live session. Live switching of roles would need to be added as a feature.
