Microsoft Teams Sign Language View AMA

Thanks for the info on recordings. As for the chats, I often find that I need to share recordings and chats broadly after the event. For example, I record a training session or demo that I post to Stream for anyone in the department to be able to access long-term. That's where we lose the chat features and where the sign interpreter recordings are necessary.

Also, Chris, thanks for taking the lead on this feature. I see most of the content appears to be authored by you, so I just wanted to personally thank you for pushing for this feature with your team 🙂

Hi Diane,

1. We have an announcement video and a support article video

2. No Live Event support at the time. This is a top priority for us. No ETA.

3. The Live Captions support page has details on which languages are supported. English and French are supported.
4. Currently, no, but this is something that we can add to our backlog. Would you want something that is formatted similarly to the transcript view?

Is there a video on this new feature? Does this new feature allow for a LIVE MS Teams Event, with ASL and QSL pinned frames, along with multiple presenters and presentation materials? How many frames are feasible? Are Closed Captioning and Transcription available in English and in French? Is there a way to get transcriptions without time stamping? Thank you!

In case the technical staff who are responding are only monitoring this thread, my comment/question is... Hello. My name is Billy Howell and I am in North Carolina. As a technologist and a person who supports customers as a contractor, I have specific concerns around Teams and Teams Live events roadmap. Specifically ... For entities who are held accountable for considering accommodations for users who have protected statuses such as deaf and hard of hearing, the ambiguity between teams and teams live events makes it difficult to determine which features are actually present in each platform. Entities who have to select solutions which are bound by these considerations are unable to consider the Teams platform for large scale meetings because the limitation of 1000 users that teams has for video streaming means that users who rely on sign language interpreters cannot see the interpreter. Teams live events doesn’t have that technical restriction on video streaming, but the newest sign language view is not available in live events. I would ask if the appropriate priority can be placed on either unifying both platforms' feature sets used for accessibility OR the 1000 participant limit be addressed so that live events can be retired as the work around? The 1000 participant limit seems like an engineering resource constraint put on the product to prevent oversaturation of that platform's infrastructure. The lack of unified features between the platforms seems like a lack of development resources. Both seem addressable from an outside perspective.