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MVP

Aug 25, 2022

🔊How to use Language Interpretation in Microsoft Teams [Real-Time Translation]

NEW VIDEO N. 259 Language interpretation will allow interpreters to convert what the speaker says into another language in real-time without disrupting the original flow of delivery of the speaker....

MVP

Nov 24, 2022

The speaker can mute himself/herself giving the time to the interpreter to deliver the translation, however for my opinion speaker and interpreters should be synchronized like in the real in presence translation.
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.

melvinho77

Copper Contributor

Nov 24, 2022

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.

GiulianoDeLuca
MVP
Nov 24, 2022
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.
- Rayagreen
  Copper Contributor
  Apr 06, 2023
  GiulianoDeLuca
  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.