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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 20 free minutes a month and paid plans from $6, no card needed to start. See pricing, or the same thing for Meet and Zoom.

What Teams Premium actually costs you

Live translated captions in Teams are part of Teams Premium, an add-on licence of roughly ten dollars per user per month. It is bought by the organisation and assigned per person by an administrator, which is why partial rollouts are so common: the people who most need translation are frequently not the people the first batch of licences went to.

It is also why asking for it is not a five-minute conversation. A licence request goes through whoever owns the Microsoft 365 budget, and a guest on another company’s tenant has no path to it at all.

Which Teams addresses work in a browser

• teams.microsoft.com — work and school accounts.
• teams.live.com — personal accounts.
• teams.cloud.microsoft — the newer address Microsoft is moving tenants to.
• To force a browser join from a meeting link, open the link and choose “Continue on this browser” instead of letting it hand off to the desktop app.

Why bots are a particular problem in Teams

Most meeting-translation services that advertise Teams support work by adding an application or a bot to the call. In Teams that path runs straight into tenant governance: app permission policies, admin consent, and in many organisations a compliance-recording notice that appears for every participant the moment the bot joins.

None of that is an accident — it is the tenant working as designed. But it does mean that “just add our bot” is, for a large company, a security review rather than a button. A browser extension sidesteps the question by not being in the meeting at all.

What to expect from quality

Teams calls are frequently large, and large calls are the hard case for any live captioning: overlapping speakers, people dialling in from phones, and long stretches of screen-shared silence broken by half-sentences. Recognition handles a single clear speaker far better than a crosstalk moment, and no product on the market is different in that respect.

Expect a delay of a second or two, expect names and internal acronyms to be the weak spot, and keep the recognised original line on screen so that a strange-looking translation can be checked against what was actually said.