Microsoft has expanded the support of Copilot AI features for Intel and AMD to include its real-time translation and captioning.
With Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2705 for Dev channel testers, Microsoft is bringing its AI-powered Live Translation and Captions support for Copilot+ PCs that have Intel and AMD chipsets under the hood.
While it may feel like a no-brainer at this point, there was a time that Microsoft marketed its Copilot features as being able to shine more on devices powered by a new Snapdragon chip dubbed the X Elite. However, Intel and AMD have been quietly churning out SoC’s with the necessary Neural Processing Units (NPUs) and now Microsoft is flipping the switch to support these devices and bring them to parity with their heavily marketed Qualcomm-powered counterparts.
Dev Insiders on Copilot+ PCs can look forward to the following:
Live captions and real-time translation
We are enhancing communication on AMD and Intel®-powered Copilot+ PCs with live captions and real-time translation. We’re beginning to roll out the ability in live captions to translate more than 44 languages into English, including speakers in real-time video calls, recordings and streamed content. Real-time translation is rolling out AMD and Intel®-powered Copilot+ PCs with English as the primary language in use. Be sure to check the known issues for real-time translation in live captions documented below in this blog post.
The Windows team says its new Intel and AMD support of these features will be a rollout release, so if you don’t see it immediately, just give it a couple of days.
“Many features in the Dev Channel are rolled out using Control Feature Rollout technology, starting with a subset of Insiders and ramping up over time as we monitor feedback.”
As for the rest of the preview build, Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs will get a language expansion for its real-time translation that includes Chinese (Simplified) now that adds to the current support of Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech Danish, German, Greek, English Spanish, English, Estonian, Finnish, France, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, and Swedish.
Recall is still being tested and some of its known issues have been addressed.
- Recall can be enabled or disabled from “Turn Windows features on or off”. We are caching the Recall binaries on disk while we test add/remove. In a future update we will completely remove the binaries.
- Some users may see a message to “Make sure Recall is saving snapshots”, while the Settings page for Recall shows saving snapshots is enabled. Reboot your device to resolve this issue.
- Make sure you update Microsoft 365 apps to the latest version so you can jump back into specific documents.
This build should be a fun one for Windows users to play around with during this upcoming winter break.
