Does Teams translate meetings? What you can do (and the limits)

Does Microsoft Teams translate meetings? Partly, yes — but it’s important to understand what it actually does and where the limits are. In this guide we explain Teams’s native features and how Langless translates voice, in both directions, on top of your meeting.

What Teams does natively

Teams offers live captions and, on some plans, translation of those captions into another language. In other words: it transcribes speech and can show it translated as text on screen.

The limits vary: availability depends on the plan (some translation features require specific licenses) and on the set of supported languages. It’s a caption feature — you have to read — and it generally serves to follow what others say, not to have the meeting audio come out translated as voice.

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Where Langless comes in

Langless does something different and complementary: live voice translation, in both directions, on top of Teams. Through Meeting mode, with a virtual audio cable (VB-CABLE on Windows, BlackHole on Mac), your translated speech comes in as the microphone in Teams and you hear the other side’s translation. That way, each person speaks their own language and the conversation flows by voice, across dozens of languages — without depending on the license plan for the language pairs.

See the step by step in how to translate a Teams meeting.

Teams (built-in) vs. Langless

Side by side, the difference is voice vs. text. Teams’s native features change by plan and over time, so confirm the current details before deciding.

How much it costs

Subscription from US$ 25/month + ~US$ 0.03/min BYOK (your OpenAI or Gemini key, no markup). A ~60-minute meeting comes to ~US$ 1.80 in minutes. See the plans.

When NOT to use Langless

If you only need to read the other person’s speech in a language already covered by your Teams plan, the native captions may be enough, at no extra cost. And for high-risk legal or diplomatic meetings, prefer a human interpreter. To converse by voice, in both directions, day to day, Langless does the job. Compare in human interpreter or AI.