Microsoft Teams new features promise to boost productivity

Microsoft Teams serves as a useful messaging app for organisations. The app is designed to offer a shared workspace for seamless real-time collaboration and communication, meetings, file and app sharing. It’s a comprehensive platform that consolidates all of these features in one location, ensuring that they are transparently accessible to everyone.

Recently, the company also revealed that Microsoft Teams surpassed 300 million monthly active users recently. Now in order to further improve the user experience, Teams has rolled out some new features which will further offer better collaboration and meetings. Here are all the new features coming to Microsoft Teams.

Automatically lowering a user’s raised hand after speaking
With the latest update, Microsoft Teams will automatically alert users and lower their raised hand after they spoke in a meeting. The company claims that the feature will save time and also will also make it easier for meeting organizers to move on to unanswered questions. Users will also be able to choose to keep their hand raised if they wish by clicking the “Keep it raised” button. If you do not act on the notification, your hand will automatically be lowered.

Green screen in Teams meetings
The latest green screen feature delivers enhanced clarity and precision, enabling you to appear at your very best in your virtual backdrop. Moreover, this feature enables you to showcase props and other items, which are readily visible to all participants in the call.

Ultrasound Howling Detection
In scenarios where multiple users are participating in a Teams meeting from the same room using audio, an echo may occur due to feedback loops. Fortunately, Teams has introduced the Ultrasound Howling Detection feature to address this issue. The feature can detect if another Teams device is already present in the meeting, and it will automatically mute the microphone and speakers to eliminate any potential echoing.

Video closed captions in PowerPoint live
With the latest update, Teams now offers closed captions for embedded videos in PowerPoint Live for Teams. This feature empowers attendees to activate closed captions and seamlessly follow along with the presentation, significantly enhancing the accessibility of the content.

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Microsoft Teams serves as a useful messaging app for organisations. The app is designed to offer a shared workspace for seamless real-time collaboration and communication, meetings, file and app sharing. It’s a comprehensive platform that consolidates all of these features in one location, ensuring that they are transparently accessible to everyone.

Recently, the company also revealed that Microsoft Teams surpassed 300 million monthly active users recently. Now in order to further improve the user experience, Teams has rolled out some new features which will further offer better collaboration and meetings. Here are all the new features coming to Microsoft Teams.

Automatically lowering a user’s raised hand after speaking
With the latest update, Microsoft Teams will automatically alert users and lower their raised hand after they spoke in a meeting. The company claims that the feature will save time and also will also make it easier for meeting organizers to move on to unanswered questions. Users will also be able to choose to keep their hand raised if they wish by clicking the “Keep it raised” button. If you do not act on the notification, your hand will automatically be lowered.

Green screen in Teams meetings
The latest green screen feature delivers enhanced clarity and precision, enabling you to appear at your very best in your virtual backdrop. Moreover, this feature enables you to showcase props and other items, which are readily visible to all participants in the call.

Ultrasound Howling Detection
In scenarios where multiple users are participating in a Teams meeting from the same room using audio, an echo may occur due to feedback loops. Fortunately, Teams has introduced the Ultrasound Howling Detection feature to address this issue. The feature can detect if another Teams device is already present in the meeting, and it will automatically mute the microphone and speakers to eliminate any potential echoing.

Video closed captions in PowerPoint live
With the latest update, Teams now offers closed captions for embedded videos in PowerPoint Live for Teams. This feature empowers attendees to activate closed captions and seamlessly follow along with the presentation, significantly enhancing the accessibility of the content.

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