INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
If you&ve ever attended a video meeting and wished that the speakers used really expensive cameras and lenses that allowed for that soft
classy background blur of a portrait photo, then Microsoft wants to make that wish come true
The company announced a number of updates to Microsoft Teams today, and one of those is a feature that automatically detects faces and blurs
the background behind a speaker.
While background blur is nice (or at least we have to assume it will be because we haven''t been able to
try it yet), the more useful new feature in Teams is intelligent recordings
Teams can now automatically generate captions and provide time-coded transcripts for the replays
This feature is coming to Office 365 commercial customers now.
Microsoft first demoed these new transcription capabilities at its Build
developer conference earlier this year
In that demo, the transcription service was able to distinguish between speakers and create a real-time transcript of the meeting.
If you
want to create live streams and on-demand video for a wider audience inside your company, Teams is also getting that capability next month,
together with Microsoft Stream and Yammer (which seems to be lingering in the shadow of Teams these days).
