Microsoft Teams: Intelligent message translation in chats on desktop
Overview
In Microsoft Teams, when you get a message in a different language, you will see translation suggestions to help you understand the message. In settings, you can select which languages you do not want to translate and whether to translate messages automatically.
What does it look like?
Short silent video overview of the translate feature in chat
How can I change the default language for translated messages?
You will be able to set the default translation language from the settings.
In the settings you will also be able to set up how Teams manages messages that appear in other languages and if you’d like Teams not to translate certain languages.
To enable this option:
- Select Translate from the 3 dots menu at the top right hand side of the message
- Click Settings
- Select General from the left hand side navigation and scroll on the right until you see the Translate options.
- You can now choose to Auto-translate all messages or Ask me before translating
- Select Never translate (language) if you don’t want Teams to show the option to translate that language.
- If you chose to Translate or Auto-translate from Step 3, you will see the Translate icon beside the message
Screenshots of the process below:
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