Microsoft PowerPoint Is Coming To You With Real-time Captions And Subtitles

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Written By Mohit Jha
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Published On February 12th, 2020
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Live presentations are one of the best ways to interact with the audience and it can be inspirational and thought-provoking. Basically, all the businesses and professional firms use presentations in multiple areas like training, internal communication, sales etc. However, not everybody experiences the presentations in the same manner. Also, it might be possible that some of the audiences speak any other language than the presenter or are deaf or hard of hearing.

In order to break down the barriers and help the presenters to deliver their messages to audiences, Microsoft has announced that it is adding or coming with a new update, real-time captions and subtitles to Microsoft PowerPoint early in the year 2019.

Real Time Captions & Subtitle By Microsoft Powerpoint Update

The real time subtitles and captions in Microsoft Powerpoint will help to support the deaf or tough of listening to the local community, and even let speakers involve a translation of the presentation. Real-time captions and subtitles will support more than 12 spoken languages and display on-screen more than 60 different languages. So, for speakers, it will become easier to translate the speech in different languages and subtitling their presentation (PPT) according to audiences.

In essence, the captions are based upon Microsoft’s ongoing artificial intelligence (A.I.) work and the provider is using similar computer software to enable its presentations in past years to provide the captions and translation to the audiences. Soon, presenters will become able to customize the visual aspect of subtitles that matches best with the presentation and the speech recognition must be adapted for much accuracy in terminology centered on the context. This means the subtitles will be readable regardless of the device that is being utilized to view them. In addition, the company is also guaranteeing that the automated text generation will surely meet many business standards for the compliance certifications in the upgraded Microsoft Powerpoint in 2019..

Microsoft’s Live Captions and Subtitles in PowerPoint Carries:

  • Automatic recognition of speech, which depends upon the presented content for accurate recognition of names as well as specialized terminology
  • AI power to presenters so that they can simply convey the complex information along with subjects and themes
  • Enable presenters to easily customize the position, size, and the visual aspect of subtitles. Customizations can be varied by platform
  • High security and compliance that meets with many industry standards for the compliance certifications

Words of Microsoft

In the honor of United Nations’ International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we are declaring real-time subtitles and captions feature in MS PowerPoint; powered by AI (artificial intelligence). The AI tool is designed to resolve the language barrier issues for the presenters and provide support to the deaf and hard hearing community. It enables the audience to read what is being spoken in the real-time. The subtitles and captions will be available in 12 spoken languages and show on-screen captions/ subtitle in any one of 60+ languages.

With the intention to create a more inclusive experience for the users, Microsoft has announced this compliment on the International Day of People with Disabilities as one of the main reasons to develop this technology is to help citizens with hearing problems. Live subtitles and captions will begin to roll out in January 2019 and will be available for Office 365 subscribers who are using PowerPoint for Windows 10, PowerPoint Online, and PowerPoint for Mac.

Above All

The A.I. powered tool for MS PowerPoint is a big push of Microsoft to provide better accessibility features in the workplace by the vision for better collaboration. Real-time subtitles and captions in Microsoft PowerPoint can be a game-changing feature for the people with listening disabilities as users can expand the use of their computers to hear and view with impressive accuracy. According to Microsoft, only one in 10 people with disabilities in the world have access to assistive technology tools. Hence, A.I. driven solutions will help people to make a wider impact in the space.

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By Mohit Jha

Meet Mohit, an accomplished professional serving as an Assistant Digital Marketing Manager and content strategist. As a content strategist, Mohit combines creativity and strategy to craft compelling narratives that captivate audiences and align with brand objectives. With a dual expertise in digital marketing and content strategy, Mohit is your trusted partner in achieving digital excellence.