Late last year Microsoft introduced real-time captioning and translation of PowerPoint presentations. At that time it wasn’t available in all versions of PowerPoint. That changed this week when Mike Tholfsen, product manager for Microsoft EDU, Tweeted that real-time captioning and translation is now available in all versions of PowerPoint for Windows, Mac, and Web. Watch the following video to learn how to enable real-time translation and captioning of your presentations.

Applications for Education

Real-time captioning and translation could be a great feature to turn on when giving presentations to groups of parents whose first language isn’t English. The automatic captioning function will also be useful in making presentations accessible to students who have hearing impairments.