Hi there, welcome to Collaboration Simplified.
My name is Shervin Chaffee, and I work at Microsoft
as a co -pilot principal technical specialist.
Now on this channel, we often build our own autonomous
agents, but today I'm very excited to share an
agent that Microsoft has built, and that is the
interpreter agent. So I just... No, it works.
It works very well. It works very. Very well.
Oh, wow. That's awesome. Now, this agent is for
your Microsoft Teams meetings and basically does
speech -to -speech translations for your multilingual
Teams meetings. Now, everyone can speak in their
language of choice. It doesn't have to necessarily
be English all the time. Simulates your voice.
It's unbelievable. Yes. Incredible. I listen
to Jerome. I know that Jerome is speaking in
French. I hear him in Spanish and I listen to
Shervin. in spanish too and it's that he uses
your voice your tone of voice it's like you're
really speaking in spanish it's incredible danny
you uh i think you selected maybe yeah that's
what i'm hearing i'm hearing a female voice so
just go to the settings and just have it use
your own voice absolutely i'm actually quite
excited about this feature Even though it's in
public preview I get to experiment with it and
share it with you. I first heard about this feature
back in 2024 when it was in development and I
actually couldn't believe that something like
this existed because It reminded me of the United
Nations meetings that I used to watch where there
was an interpreter and this was a human interpreter
but now that's being replaced with AI doing all
that hard work and so it's a lot more cost effective
and easy to use. Today this feature comes with
your Microsoft 365 co -pilot license but when
it becomes generally available stay tuned for
any licensing changes that may present itself
at that time but for now enjoy it with that license
and we're going to do a demo and experiment with
it this feature is available in nine different
languages let me see if i can remember them all
so that would be english french spanish italian
german portuguese mandarin chinese japanese and
korean so those are the nine languages and i'm
hopeful that will extend beyond those in the
future Now I mentioned this is available as part
of our public preview program. So for those of
you who are not familiar with that program, let's
take a look and see what that actually means.
Okay. So this is our Microsoft Teams public preview
page, and I'll drop the link in the description,
but basically first off it says note features
included in preview might not be complete and
could undergo changes before becoming available
in the public release. public preview for microsoft
teams provides early access to unreleased features
and teams preview allows you to explore and test
upcoming features so basically we're giving you
early access which is awesome now i would say
share this document with your admin because they
have to set the update policy so that you can
actually enjoy these public preview features
so there's something that the admin needs to
do further down below as an end user you have
to take some steps inside microsoft teams which
are outlined here to be able to take advantage
of these public preview features so inside the
new teams client you go to settings and you click
on the three dots next to your user profile select
settings and about teams and then under early
access you select the public preview checkbox
so Make sure you do that and then you should
have access to this feature. Now, sometimes it
takes a little bit of time for these features
to get rolled up because I just got news that
it was in public preview this week. So it might
take a little bit of time. Now, I do also want
to mention that we've actually had live caption
translations available with our Teams Premium
in 31 languages for quite some time now, maybe
a year or more. And if you check out this site
and if you scroll down to the bottom. it lists
all the different languages i think there's 31
of them that we translate to so this is more
like a closed captioning but what i'm talking
about now is speech now let's do a quick demo
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setting up the interpreter agent is super simple
in a teams meeting select more and then go down
to language and speech and just simply select
turn on the interpreter Now here it remembers
your last settings, but you can always select
settings and look at all the different languages,
nine of them that we shared earlier. And you
can balance the volume between the original audio
or more interpretation audio. So if you want
to hear it more or less, it's up to you. And
I like to simulate my voice, but you can also
test out the other automated voices. So here's
one of them. Hey there, I hope you're having
a great day so far. Now let's listen to the second
voice. Hey there, I hope you're having a great
day so far. And finally, here's the third one.
Hey there, I hope you're having a great day so
far. Now what we can do is I'm going to select
German and you can hear what you sound like in
German in one of the automated voices. How does
it sound when you translate my voice to German?
You can also select settings on the top left
hand side and access the interpreter settings
there. And now here I'm going to select simulate
my voice. And I can also go to settings and maybe
select a different language like Chinese. What
about now? I'm curious what I sound like in Chinese.
So that's all there is to it. Super easy to use.
You can just turn it off if you wanted to. Now
let me show you what it sounds like in an actual
Teams meeting. It's actually part of Copilot
Studio, but it's embedded inside the M365 Copilot
Suite. And once you start moving past its capabilities,
like the basic retrieval augmentation, Then you
go into Copilot Studio and you can do things
like Autonomous Agents or Custom Engine Agents
and that's what's shown in this diagram here.
So you go to the copilot studio and you can do
things like autonomous agents or personalized
engine agents. And that's what I'm trying, you
know. That's what's shown in this diagram here.
Yes, it is. In fact, it is topic number one.
When it comes to introducing new technology,
especially artificial intelligence and agents,
and what we always say is that everything we
do at Microsoft goes with what? We call artificial
intelligence responsibilities applied by Microsoft,
but we also offer tools of what we call control
and governance. For those who have access to
agents of those agents, who have control? To
monitor the impact of those agents. Who can use
the agents? I mean, we have a suite of tools
that really help. Jerome, your voice that was
being translated to English for me, it sounded
more like your voice. And Danny's voice didn't
sound as much to me as your original voice. Okay.
Yours was sounding like French Quebecois. Mine?
Yes! A little bit, a little bit. Thank you very
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