Microsoft Teams Lands on Android Auto Soon, While Microsoft and OneMeta Partner on Teams Translation Service
Microsoft Teams is coming to Android Auto in February.
Android Auto, an app that allows Android phones to connect to a car’s built-in infotainment system, will add Microsoft’s communication and collaboration platform in February, nearly a year after first being announced at Google’s I/O 2023 event.
Users can join meetings and make calls from the calendar view. However, there’s no further information on whether Android Auto will also integrate with chat and channel messaging or complement other Teams features like file sharing.
Google announced Android Auto integration for Teams, Zoom and Webex at its I/O in 2023, with both latter platforms landing on the app last September. It’s unclear why it’s taken so long for Teams to follow suit.
In other Teams news, Microsoft and OneMeta have partnered to introduce the latter’s AI-powered translation and transcription Verbum service to the former's video conferencing platform.
OneMeta’s Verbum software translates and transcribes in over 140 languages and has now reached Microsoft IP Co-sell Ready Status. Practically, the fusion of Verbum with Microsoft Teams will allow users to communicate in over 140 languages during meetings.
Saul Leal, CEO at OneMeta, said:
By using Verbum for Microsoft Teams, companies, organizations, employees, customers, etc. will all be able to communicate in their native languages. Finally, the last great barrier to inclusion has been conquered. Just think how fast information and intelligence will flow. We will be able to speak, hear, read, and understand one another in our own native language simultaneously."
This enables the multilingual enablement business joint go-to-market sales activities with Microsoft’s Teams Enterprise worldwide sales teams, while OneMeta’s Verbum software license is also now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource Marketplace online stores.
RingCentral Elects Former Twitter CFO to Board
RingCentral has elected Ned Segal to its Board of Directors.
Segal brings a wealth of experience as a financial executive to RingCentral. He was Chief Financial Officer at Twitter between 2017 and 2022. He was removed from his position along with several other executives after Elon Musk purchased the social media business in October of that year.
