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Microsoft Teams transcription language settings
Hi!
With a Microsoft 365 Business Premium license and a Copilot license, I can use transcription during a Teams meeting by setting the spoken language to Auto Detect. However, the transcription is sometimes inaccurate. Is there a way to limit the language detection scope? For example, is it possible that I select only English and Chinese, and Auto Detect is restricted to those two languages instead of also attempting to detect languages such as Spanish or French ?
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You want Teams to recognize only English and Chinese because automatic detection sometimes selects unrelated languages. Your Business Premium and Copilot context matters, but licensing does not provide a documented custom two-language detection allowlist. Microsoft's current guidance instead lets participants select their spoken language in multilingual meetings. Enable multilingual speech recognition in the meeting's Recording and transcription options, then have each participant open caption or transcript language settings and explicitly select the language they are speaking. Where Auto-detect is selected, replace it with the appropriate English or Chinese option. Keep the spoken-language setting separate from Translate to: translation changes the output language, not what the speaker actually said. Test this in a short meeting with the same participants before relying on the transcript. If recognition remains incorrect with explicit language settings, record the meeting details and Teams version for your administrator to investigate with Microsoft.
