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Jon Scrivin
Copper Contributor
Aug 10, 2016

Skype Broadcast Meeting Roadmap?

We've trialled SfB Broadcast Meeting, and found it promising but a bit limited at present - screen sharing for us is a major requirement - however I can't find a roadmap or similar with information o...
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Paul Cannon's avatar
Paul Cannon
Former Employee
Aug 16, 2016

Skype Meeting Broadcast is planned to be enhanced. Q&A was added in the last few weeks. And in the coming soon category - expect to see a live translation preview. Check out the Microsoft keynote speaker (Zig Serafin) at EBC to see a very early prototype demo. Items get public on the roadmap when we have a high confidence date (The when) and specifics (the how). Nothing to say about the when yet but I can share some insight on the how. It’s very likely to utilize some or all of VbSS (Video based Screen Sharing). You can get a taste of that in the SfB 2016 Windows client.

Luming Cui's avatar
Luming Cui
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May 01, 2017

HI Paul

Paul Cannon wrote:

Skype Meeting Broadcast is planned to be enhanced. Q&A was added in the last few weeks. And in the coming soon category - expect to see a live translation preview. Check out the Microsoft keynote speaker (Zig Serafin) at EBC to see a very early prototype demo. Items get public on the roadmap when we have a high confidence date (The when) and specifics (the how). Nothing to say about the when yet but I can share some insight on the how. It’s very likely to utilize some or all of VbSS (Video based Screen Sharing). You can get a taste of that in the SfB 2016 Windows client.

 

is there any information about when the translation feature available for Skype Meeting Broadcast?

Paul Cannon wrote:

Skype Meeting Broadcast is planned to be enhanced. Q&A was added in the last few weeks. And in the coming soon category - expect to see a live translation preview. Check out the Microsoft keynote speaker (Zig Serafin) at EBC to see a very early prototype demo. Items get public on the roadmap when we have a high confidence date (The when) and specifics (the how). Nothing to say about the when yet but I can share some insight on the how. It’s very likely to utilize some or all of VbSS (Video based Screen Sharing). You can get a taste of that in the SfB 2016 Windows client.

 

    • Luming Cui's avatar
      Luming Cui
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      May 02, 2017

      Thanks, I see it in Microsoft Tenant, but when I create the smb meeting in testing tenant, no the translation option. Do I need turn it first in Office 365?

      • Paul Cannon's avatar
        Paul Cannon
        Former Employee
        May 02, 2017

        Transcription and translation is in preview in NOAM, EMEA, and APAC.  Tenants in one of those regions can enable it via the command:

         

        Set-CsBroadcastMeetingConfiguration -EnableTechPreviewFeatures $True

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