How to Mute a Microsoft Teams Meeting When Using the Presentation Translator

When you add the Presentation Translator, audience members will want to listen only to the translation audio. To avoid hearing both the original meeting audio and the translation at the same time, they should mute the Teams meeting audio.

We recommend sending these instructions in both the calendar invite/email and in the Teams chat at the start of the session:

Steps for the Audience

1. Join the Teams meeting as usual.
2. Open the link to the translation audio track (shared in the chat).
3. Select your preferred language and press Play.
4. Back in the Teams meeting, click the More options (•••) or Settings menu next to the microphone.
5. Under Speaker, click the speaker icon to mute the meeting audio.

👉 This way, participants will only hear the live translation in their chosen language.

Example Screenshot

Below is what the menu looks like in Teams.

Ask participants to click the speaker icon (highlighted with the muted speaker symbol) to mute the meeting audio while still staying in the call:

👉 This way, they’ll only hear the translation feed and not the overlapping meeting audio.

Updated on: 28/08/2025