03-12-2018 15:00 via theverge.com

Microsoft PowerPoint is getting real-time captions and subtitles for presentations

Microsoft is adding real-time captions and subtitles to PowerPoint early next year. The subtitles and captions are designed to help support the deaf or hard of hearing community, and even allow speakers to include a translation of a presentation. Live captions and subtitles will support 12 spoken languages and display on-screen in more than 60 different languages.
The captions are based on Microsoft’s ongoing artificial intelligence work, and the company has been using similar software to
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