Self Chat, Annotation, Live Transcription, And Meeting Experience Update

Improvements

• Chat with yourself

  Teams encourage you to talk to yourself with the newest chat feature-a one-on-one chat with yourself. Send messages, files, notes, and media to yourself to help you stay organized. You'll find your chat at the top of your pinned chats in the chat list. Keep it pinned for quick access to all the things you send yourself whether you're using Teams on your desktop, the web, or your phone.

• Use annotation together in a Teams meeting

  Annotation-powered by Microsoft Whiteboard - helps you collaborate on things like a design or presentation while sharing your screen in a Teams meeting.

  While you're sharing your full screen in a meeting, Start annotation in the meeting controls at the upper-middle area of your screen. The red outline around your shared screen will turn blue and all participants will see the Microsoft Whiteboard toolset at the top of the shared screen. Everyone in the meeting can begin annotating right away, and the red pen tool is selected by default. To learn more, see Use annotation while sharing your screen in Teams

• Live transcription and CART captions now available for Teams on the web

  You're now able to view captions coming from a CART provider (real-time captioning) within the Microsoft Teams meeting on Chrome and Edge browsers. Meeting organizers and participants will be able to ask their captioning providers to stream captions to Microsoft Teams.

  The same goes for Live transcription. To learn more about these two features, see View live transcription in a Teams meeting and Use CART captions in a Microsoft Teams meeting

• Updated meeting experience comes to Teams on the web

  The updated meeting experience is now available for Teams on the web in Chrome and Edge browsers. This includes improved pre-join (where you set up mic and camera settings before entering a meeting), a dynamic view of participants and content, and your meeting controls have moved to the top of the meeting window.