Microsoft Adds Real-Time Captions and Subtitles To Skype -- PowerPoint To Follow (betanews.com)

Skype is getting real-time captions and subtitles, and PowerPoint will have these features, too, next year. From a report: Ostensibly an accessibility feature (and launched on United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities), the new option means that Skype will be able to use voice recognition to show you the text of what is being said in a voice or video call. Microsoft will also bring the same feature to PowerPoint next year. Microsoft promises that live captions and subtitles are "optimized to be fast, continuous, and contextually updated as people speak", and in the current incarnation they will automatically scroll during a call. In a future update, however, it will be possible to manually scroll through subtitles and take advantage of additional viewing options.

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coming soon, in a future update...

[Anonymous Coward]

In not too long, Microsoft will add color to the text:

green -- your words are politically correct, citizen
yellow -- getting dangerous, potential terrorism
red -- obviously, you are a terrorist

The color will train people how to think and communicate properly. That, and the stories about very bad things that happened to people after they saw the 'red words'.