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How to translate Microsoft Teams meetings in the browser

August 1, 2026

Microsoft Teams can translate live captions, but only on Teams Premium. If you do not have it, here is how to get translated subtitles for a Teams call right in your browser.

Teams hides live translation behind Premium

Teams can show live captions to everyone, but translating them into another language is a Teams Premium feature (around $10 per user per month). On regular, free or personal Teams, there is no live translation.

Use a browser extension on Teams web

If you join Teams in the browser — at teams.microsoft.com or teams.live.com — a translation extension can hear the meeting tab and show translated subtitles as an overlay on your screen, without Premium and without admin rights.

Open the call in Teams on the web, start the extension, choose your languages, and read along.

Steps

• Install a captions extension such as Trippi from the Chrome Web Store.
• Join the Teams meeting in your browser (Continue in this browser, not the desktop app).
• Open the extension and set the language you hear and the language you want to read.
• Press Start — a translated overlay appears, visible only to you.

Desktop Teams app vs the web client

A browser extension captures the audio of a browser tab, so it covers Teams on the web. The desktop Teams app runs outside the browser and is not covered yet — join in the browser to use a tab-based translator.

Free to start

Trippi has a free daily allowance and an unlimited Pro plan, no card needed to start. See pricing, or the same thing for Meet and Zoom.