Microsoft Teams Sign Language View AMA

Thanks for joining us for this Microsoft Teams AMA for the new Sign Language View in Teams Meetings! We'll be getting these last questions answered soon.

I hope the next AMA would be live, there would be a show and tell to give more details about this feature and road map. So that we can share some ideas and insights from this feature.

We're looking forward to the AI translation services for captioning. How will the AI models differentiate between the acronym "OAR" and the terms "oar" or "or". I know this is a nuance, but I like the team to think about it as they develop this service. Thanks!

I have been employed by the Federal government for many years and I have used MS Team quite lot. Is it possible for you to add a new feature to allow us change font colours and size on blackground in live caption? BTW many thanks to you for keeping MS Teams more and more accessible for us;

My organization is part of the GCC, but we occasionally have meetings with the public and we send them invitations to meetings with interpreting services. Will the web client for guests have the same accessibility options as someone within my tenant? Will they need to download the desktop app?

Another question: If we have 2 interpreters, one taking over from the other to they can each have breaks, is there an option for the main signer to be the one currently showing their video (our interpreters switch off their video feeds when they're having a break) or will it try to show both?

Feedback - will there be an option to merge video & captions into one file? Currently, video/meeting recording captions are uploaded separated and then linked to the video. The ability to merge both video and captions into one file will make it easier for users to share videos outside of SharePoint/OD/Teams(?).

Hello! This is Shawn Tulloch, Program Manager - Deaf Services in the State of Montana. Two questions -- how can we assign a captioner/transcriber to embed the captions? I appreciate the live captions but they are not always accurate. This is why I prefer to hire a captioner to type the captions. But the embedding captions is a struggle. We ended up having to use a separate browser to read the transcript (that requires two monitors - one for Team and one for reading the transcript). The other question I have is pinning (or spotlighting) the sign language interpreters, so that their video remains larger than other participants. Thank you!

Is there a AI transcription if lets say people from deaf community are talking virtually for transcription

Do i need to have a special license for this