Hey All , FYI.. how to use AI-powered live captions & subtitles whenever in PowerPoint.
Take a look at the latest in the new live captions and subtitles features in PPT, and the call to action from the team “Today, we are encouraging users across Microsoft to start using AI-powered live captions & subtitles whenever they present with PowerPoint” From: Joshua Segeren <[email protected]> Subject: Microsoft employees: present with live captions & subtitles in PowerPoint When we think of the most impactful presentations—the ones that educate or influence, inform or enlighten, or profoundly change the perspectives of people sharing that moment—whether it’s in a classroom, boardroom, lecture hall, all-hands, living room, or wherever the ‘stage’ may be—we may sometimes forget that not everyone in the audience has the same opportunity or ability to participate. Today, we are encouraging users across Microsoft to start using AI-powered live captions & subtitles whenever they present with PowerPoint, whether from a Windows 10 PC, Mac, or from the browser. We built this feature natively into the product—inspired by, and building upon the success of the Presentation Translator add-in—to help make presentations more inclusive, especially for those in the audience who may be deaf, hard of hearing, or less comfortable with the language being spoken. The feature is already available for Office 365 Insiders on PowerPoint Desktop (Win32) and Mac, and we’ve been iterating through data, feedback and insights from many of you (thank you!). Over the next couple months, we will drive stability, performance & health, and complete the last few pieces of user-centered functionality to ensure incredible experiences that presenters & audiences can trust for the WW GA rollout. More organic, full-length presentations from users across Microsoft will help us build up ship confidence—so please dogfood, share your likes & dislikes (and any other feedback), and feel free to forward this to other internal distribution groups! Start using live captions & subtitles in PowerPoint! For all platforms, we highly recommend using a headset or other external microphone (e.g. conferencing mic), and a stable/fast internet connection while presenting with live captions & subtitles. PowerPoint Desktop (Win32) o Make sure you're on Windows 10, and have the latest PowerPoint build: File > Account > Update Options > Update • If you're in E+D: by default you will be in the "M365 Inner Ring". The latest build is 16.0.11409.20000. • If you're outside of E+D: you will likely be in the Monthly Channel, Microsoft audience. The latest build is 16.0.11328.20030. o Start any presentation, and simply click the "Start Subtitles" button from the menu in Slide Show or Presenter View. • Or, you can turn on captions/subtitles for all presentations from the ribbon (Slide Show tab > Always Use Subtitles) o To change caption/subtitle settings, including position, spoken language, subtitle language, microphone or appearance settings (e.g. font size), you can do this either from the ribbon (Slide Show tab > Subtitle Settings), or during the presentation from context menu (Slide Show or Presenter View menus > Subtitle Settings). o Please share feedback via File > Feedback; or, if you are prompted with a survey toast after a session, you can submit through that. o More help for the feature is available in the public Office support article. PowerPoint Mac o Make sure you're signed into the app with your @Microsoft account, and have the latest build: top menu > Help > Check for Updates • If you're in E+D: by default you will be on in the "M365 Inner Ring". The latest build is 16.23.211.0. • If you're outside of E+D: you will likely be in the DevMain Channel, Microsoft audience. The latest build is 16.23.206.0. o Start any presentation, and simply click "Start Subtitles" from the menu in Slide Show or Presenter View. • Or, you can turn on captions/subtitles for all presentations from the ribbon (Slide Show tab > Always Use Subtitles) - see equivalent Win32 Desktop screens above o To change caption/subtitle settings, including position, spoken language, subtitle language, microphone or appearance settings (e.g. font size), you can do this from the ribbon (Slide Show tab > Subtitle Settings) before presenting. - see equivalent Win32 Desktop screens above o Please share feedback through the tool in upper-right corner of your app; or, if you are prompted with a survey toast after a presentation, you can submit through that. o More help for the feature is available in the public Office support article. PowerPoint Online o Make sure you have the most up-to-date version of Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Opera on your Windows device. o Open any PowerPoint file created by a user inside Microsoft, or create a new presentation in PowerPoint Online. • E.g. you should see domain like "https://microsoft.sharepoint.com"; or "https://microsoft-my.sharepoint-df.com"; for the M365 Inner Ring. Files created from other (external) accounts will not yet have access to the feature. o Start the presentation, and simply click "Use Subtitles" from the Slide Show menu • Or, you can turn on captions/subtitles for the presentation from the ribbon (View tab > Use Subtitles) o To change caption/subtitle settings, including position, spoken language, or subtitle language, you can do this from the ribbon (View tab > Subtitles menu dropdown) o Please share feedback through "Help Improve Office" at the bottom right corner of the window. Help getting started o If you have any trouble getting started with the feature, please contact PowerPoint Live Subtitles – Dogfood. Behind the scenes… In announcing this milestone, we’d also like to share a fun peek/summary into the scope of this effort, and the journey so far (huge kudos to everyone involved in the collaboration!): o 4 engineering teams (E+D Global, PowerPoint, AI Speech, Translator) across several locations, developing for 3 app platforms in parallel (Win32, Mac, Online), over a relentless but short 7 months; plus, invaluable partnerships with Accessibility, EDU, Marketing, PR, and many other teams o One of the first major first-party scenario leveraging the new unified Microsoft Speech stack (unified SDK, unified speech models, unified backend) • New middle-tier service as infrastructure to support future Office voice experiences • New speech platform capabilities developed in close partnership between the experience & speech teams, which will scale to benefit other first- and third-party transcription/captioning/subtitling experiences: Automatic language model (LM) generation—including new techniques (e.g. online interpolation) to reduce model generation time—plus seamless model “hot-swapping” (during captioning and completely invisible to the user), to provide accurate transcription of terminology/names/jargon that are relevant to the presentation subject “TrueText” post-processing, for automatic punctuation and disfluency filtering, to provide clearer, more readable captions & subtitles; plus, profanity filtering (In-progress) Caption/subtitle output “stabilization” tuned per input-output language pair, to strike the ideal balance between delay & stability, and ensure readable, coherent results (In-progress) Real-time speech/audio/network quality detection, to inform & make suggestions to users when the ambient conditions may not yield a great experience o Support for 12 spoken (input) languages, 62 caption/subtitle text (output) languages, 97 UI locales o Over 175 user stories (sub-features) completed + 393 bugs found & fixed, across all client & services endpoints; 32+ independent feature gates & change gates (as engineering scaffolds), to de-risk development & release o 144 slides in e2e feature spec (each resulting in many more lines of code!); 80 source UI strings, per platform o In last 30 days alone: 5300+ users, 47K+ sessions o 95+ online media placements resulting from the initial public announcement on International Day of Persons with Disabilities (Dec 3, 2018) Thanks, and happy captioning & subtitling! 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