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English is not always the preferred language. An user of ASL may not necessarily be as proficent in English. The government version of Teams still does not hav
by mercurywells 6y ago
English is not always the preferred language. An user of ASL may not necessarily be as proficent in English.
The government version of Teams still does not have live subtitles last I checked.
- whoomp12342 6y agoI am suprised that Teams does not support multiple langauges
- bombcar 6y agoCaptions itself is very new, I assume more languages are coming (as an aside Zoom's machine transcribing works surprisingly well).
- chaorace 6y agoThat's a terrifying sentence: "the government version of Teams". Out of curiosity, what makes it different?
- bluGill 6y agoI would guess that the government doesn't take the latest updates vs having a different program called teams. The government may also refuse to install some plugins.
- Jtsummers 6y agoMore importantly, the "government version of <x>" is often hosted on something separate from the commercial version. That is, 20 companies all using MS Teams may all be actually communicating with a common (or barely segregated) backend. The government version is often running on a distinct suite of servers that only the government version touches.
- jhbadger 6y agoYeah. There is also a government version of Zoom for similar reasons.
- Jtsummers 6y agoThat was spurred (accelerated? started?) by the various revelations of where Zoom data was going and the weaknesses in its security model when everyone was forced to work from home last year and the government heavily adopted Zoom as one solution. They couldn't continue using the commercial version and be compliant with government controls on communication.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoMy guess? They don't want the content of their conversations to be processed and data mined by Microsoft. It's for the same reason myself and the teams I work with don't enable this feature in Teams, or in Google Hangouts/Meet/whatever, where I first saw it.
- vulcan01 6y agoSchools too have a different version: "the school version of Teams". What's terrifying about Microsoft tailoring their product to (very) large customer segments? (If you're wondering what my source is... I am a student and my school uses MS Teams).