How to Translate a message in Microsoft Teams
Desktop
Select More options > Translate on your desktop PC when you receive a message in another language. In this case, the message will be translated into the language you’ve selected for Teams.
Supported languages
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
- Welsh
Mobile
On your iOS or Android mobile device, you can translate a message in another language by holding the message and tapping Translate.
Press and hold the translated message and select See original (language) to return it to the original language.
Settings > Translation allows you to choose the language in which messages will be translated.
Notes:
- With the latest release of Teams, Apple iOS and Android OS mobile devices now support chat and channel message translation.
- Make sure your IT admin has turned on the translation feature in Teams if you don’t see it.
Supported Languages
- Afrikaans
- Arabic
- Arabic, Levantine SM
- Bangla
- Bosnian (Latin)
- Bulgarian
- Cantonese (Traditional)
- Catalan
- Chinese Simplified
- Chinese Traditional
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Fijian
- Filipino
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Haitian Creole
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hmong Daw
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Irish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kannada
- Kazakh
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malagasy
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Maltese
- Maori
- Marathi
- Norwegian
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Punjabi
- Queretaro Otomi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Samoan
- Serbian (Cyrillic)
- Serbian (Latin)
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tahitian
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Tongan
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
- Welsh
- Yucatec Maya
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a translation feature in Teams?
Can Teams translate in real-time?
Translating Microsoft Teams Meetings
Wordly interprets your Microsoft Teams meetings in 20+ languages in real-time. Meeting participants select their preferred language.
How do I use Microsoft Translator?
- You can open the Microsoft Translator app for Windows 10 by clicking on the app icon.
- Click on the Translate tab and then click on Text.
- Please select the language you wish to convert from and to.
- Your sentence can be typed in or copied and pasted into the box.
- Select some words from the translated text in the box to the right and highlight them in the language you translated them to.
How do I translate a live meeting?
- Tap the screen so that call controls appear.
- Tap More Show captions. . You get an on-screen prompt that says “Captions are starting.”
- Tap More Settings .
- Under “Live Captions,” tap Translation language.
- Select a language: French. German. Portuguese. …
- To return to the main screen, tap Return.