Enabling Closed Captions

If you want to enable closed captioning in your Teams meetings, you must be using the Teams App on your PC or Mac. If you do not have the Teams App installed yet, you can download it by clicking on this link.

During the Meeting

1. Join the Microsoft Teams meeting.
2. On the meeting toolbar, click More (•••).
3. Select Language and speech.
4. Click Turn on live captions.
5. Captions will now appear at the bottom of the meeting window.

To Turn Off Captions

1. Click More (•••).
2. Select Language and speech.
3. Click Turn off live captions.

To make sure your live captions are as accurate as possible:

• Speak clearly, slowly, and directly into the mic. As your distance from the mic increases, captions may become less accurate.
• Avoid locations with background noise.
• Avoid having multiple people speak at the same time.