Microsoft Powerpoint Adding Real-Time Captions and Subtitles

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Microsoft Powerpoint Adding Real-Time Captions and Subtitles The new visual aids will be added to the software in early 2019. Microsoft is giving PowerPoint the upgrade to support the deaf and hard of hearing community. The new feature will even allow speakers to include translations
of a presentation. Live captions and subtitles will support 12 spoken languages and display on-screen in more than
60 languages. Microsoft is planning to bring these features to the Office 365 version of PowerPoint in late January. They'll work across Windows, PowerPoint for Mac and online versions
of PowerPoint.