Microsoft Teams transcription language settings

As far as I know, Teams doesn’t currently let you restrict Auto Detect to a custom shortlist like “English + Chinese only.” You basically have two options: leave the spoken language on Auto Detect and let Teams choose from the supported languages, or manually set the spoken language to one specific language in the transcript/caption settings.

Microsoft actually recommends setting the spoken language explicitly when accuracy matters. If your meetings regularly switch between English and Chinese, I’d look at the multilingual speech recognition setting instead. With Copilot or Teams Premium, the organizer can enable multilingual speech recognition, and participants can select their own spoken language. That’s designed more for genuinely multilingual meetings than relying on one global Auto Detect setting.