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Annette1101
Brass Contributor
Oct 09, 2020

New meeting experience - Show Captions (GCC)

We just received the new meeting calling/experience in our Teams instance. We are a GCC client. When someone in the meeting/call enables show captions, a "Transcription-GCC-bot" appears as another participant in the meeting/call. Even when captions are turned off, the participant still shows. Is that by design? Is there a way to hide that, especially if no one has 'show captions' enabled?

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  • techmastermike's avatar
    techmastermike
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 23, 2020

    Annette1101  Ed_Winslow  - created uservoice instance to allow bot to be hidden:

     

    https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/926545-teams-for-government/suggestions/41724460-allow-transcription-gcc-bot-to-be-hidden-in-meetin

  • Ed_Winslow's avatar
    Ed_Winslow
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 12, 2020

    What is this "transcription-GCC bot"  that is taking up screen space w/o doing anything useful? What is it and, more importantly, how do I turn it off? Note that I had never seen it until I enabled the new "Meeting in a Window" feature that was just introduced.

    • techmastermike's avatar
      techmastermike
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 23, 2020

      Ed_Winslow - I agree that the bot takes up valuable real estate on the screen without adding much. Frustrating that there's not a way to hide the bot to give more screen to human participants.