Skype Launches Real-Time Captions and Subtitles
A few days ago Microsoft announced that PowerPoint will get real-time captions and subtitles technology in early 2019. Today, they announced similar technology is now available on Skype.
Launching today to coincide with the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the new feature allows reading the words that are spoken during audio or video calls in Skype to those who are deaf or hard of hearing.
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You can enable this option in Skype’s settings by selecting the more (+) button during the call and then choosing “Turn Subtitles On.”
Microsoft says that option can also be set as the default under Settings. To do this, You have to click your Profile picture, then click on Settings, then on Calling, then Call Subtitles. Here you can toggle on Show Subtitles for all voice and video calls. When you turn it on, live captions and subtitles will auto-scroll during the call.
Microsoft also said they are working to offer more viewing options in the upcoming days. Specifically, Skype will soon allow you to scroll through the captions in a side window. That will help so many people.
The company claims the new AI-powered live captions and subtitles have been optimized to be “fast, continuous, and contextually update as people speak.”
To make easy conversations, Real-time captions is only one way Skype has been working. A few years ago, Skype also expanded its real-time translation capabilities.
In this new feature, You can select over 20 languages in settings. When toggled on, Skype users will be able to read the subtitles in their chosen language during every call.
These features of Skype will be available in Skype version 8 on Android (6.0+), Android tablet, iPhone, iPad, Linux, Mac, Windows, and Skype for Windows 10 (version 14).
However, it may not be immediately live for you, even if you’re on the correct version as it’s being gradually rolled out over the weeks ahead. But these Real-time captions and subtitles features will be useful in the future.
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