Cortana integration, message translation, and more coming to Microsoft Teams

This calendar week marks a year since Microsoft Teams launched out of preview, and Microsoft is marker the occasion with a peek at some the new features it currently has in the pipeline for the Slack competitor.

The virtually notable of these new features is support for Cortana vocalism interactions on Teams devices, just a number of other handy additions, similar in-line message translation and cloud recording, are on the mode as well. Here's a wait at what to look later on in 2022:

Cloud recording, providing one-click meeting recordings with automatic transcription and timecoding, enabling all team members the power to read captions, search within the conversation, and playback all or function of the meeting;
In-line bulletin translation, enabling people who speak different languages to fluidly communicate with one some other past translating posts in channels and chat;
Cortana voice interactions for Teams-enabled devices, including IP phones and conference room devices, enabling you to easily brand a call, join a meeting or add together other people to a coming together in Teams using spoken tongue;
Background blur on video, providing the ability to blur your background during video calls then other meeting attendees tin can focus on you, not what's behind yous;
Proximity detection for Teams Meetings, making it easy for yous to discover and add a nearby and available Skype Room System to any meeting
Mobile sharing in meetings, enabling attendees to share a live video stream, photos, or the screen from their mobile device

Additionally, Microsoft revealed some phone call-related features estimated to hitting Teams in Q2 of 2022. These include consultative transfer, along with call delegation and federation. Direct routing is on the way every bit well, which will permit organizations use existing telephony infrastructure with calling in Teams. These calling features come every bit Microsoft continues to move Skype for Business users over to Teams.

Finally, Microsoft offered up some stats on Teams' progress in its year since launch. The service is now used by 200,000 organizations spread across 181 markets and 39 languages, the company says. Among those 200,000 users, Microsoft says three million teams have been created and nearly 60 percent of Teams users are outside of the U.Southward.

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