Watch the full setup (8:15) — subtitles and voice-over in 10 languages
MICROSOFT TEAMS TRANSLATION
Translate Microsoft Teams calls live — both ways, nothing added to Teams
VoxisLive runs beside Teams on your Windows PC: you hear the call in your language, and with a free virtual microphone the others hear you in theirs. No bot, no tenant admin approval, no app in Teams.
This is the Teams version of Meeting mode, which runs two translations at once. Incoming: the audio Teams plays is spoken back to you in your language. Outgoing: your microphone is translated and played into a virtual microphone that Teams uses as your mic. Both run a few seconds behind the speaker, the span any simultaneous interpreter needs.
VoxisLive never connects to Teams: it reads sound at the Windows audio layer, so there is no bot to admit from the lobby, nothing in your organisation's app catalogue and no Microsoft 365 consent prompt. The desktop client and Teams in Chrome or Edge work the same way.
Set up two-way Teams translation in four steps
About five minutes, once. After that, every call only needs Meeting mode started.
You'll need: VoxisLive (Meeting mode uses paid minutes after the one-time 15-minute Pro taste) · VB-CABLE (free, one-time) · Microsoft Teams for Windows or in the browser · headphones
STEP 1
Install VB-CABLE (free, one-time)
VB-CABLE is a small free driver from VB-Audio that gives Windows a virtual microphone: VoxisLive plays your translated voice into it and Teams picks it up like a headset. Download it from vb-audio.com/Cable, install it, then quit and reopen Teams — it lists audio devices only when it starts. On Windows, Meeting mode does not start without a virtual microphone; on Linux the app creates its own.
STEP 2
Open Settings › Devices, set Speaker to your headphones
Click the … at the top right of Teams, left of your profile picture, then Settings (or press Ctrl+,) › Devices. Under Audio settings, set Speaker to your headphones — never a CABLE device. Microsoft moves these menus between versions; if they are elsewhere, look for Devices.
STEP 3
Set Microphone to “CABLE Output (VB-Audio Virtual Cable)”
Set Microphone to CABLE Output (VB-Audio Virtual Cable), the cable's microphone side; never CABLE Input. Teams has no “same as system” entry, so this is always a choice you make by hand — and after the call, set your real microphone back, or your next call without VoxisLive has no sound.
STEP 4
Start VoxisLive in Meeting mode, then join with Computer audio
In VoxisLive, pick the Meeting scenario, choose your real microphone as its input, set the language you want to hear and the one the others should hear, and press Start. On the Teams pre-join screen choose Computer audio: the microphone and speaker rows are right there — check they read CABLE Output and your headphones (Test mic and speaker sits next to them), then Join now.
IF THEY HEAR YOU TWICE
Turn off “Listen to this device”
If the others hear your own voice along with the translation, Windows is playing your microphone into the call. In the Windows Sound settings, open Recording › your microphone › Properties › Listen and untick Listen to this device.
Headphones, and the mistake that creates a third voice
Use headphones, or your real microphone picks up the meeting and sends it back. And if Teams's Speaker points at the virtual cable VoxisLive feeds, the call loops back into the meeting and the others hear a third voice half a beat behind. The cable belongs in the Microphone slot only.
Meeting minutes are paid minutes. The daily free minutes cover one-way listening only; a new account's one-time 15-minute Pro taste includes Meeting mode. After that, every minute, both directions together, is billed against a paid balance — see pricing.
Where to go next
For the general picture, start at the meetings hub; the same setup covers Zoom and Google Meet. Device missing? Work through the audio setup checklist and troubleshooting.
FAQ
Common questions
01Does my IT department have to approve or install anything in Teams?
No application is installed into Teams, so there is nothing to publish to your organisation's app catalogue and no tenant administrator consent to obtain. VoxisLive is a Windows application that captures the audio your computer is already playing; Teams is never asked for anything. Installing software on a managed workstation may still be governed by your own IT policy — that part is between you and your administrators, not between us and Teams.
02Will the other participants see that I am using it?
Nothing joins the meeting, so nothing appears in the participant list and no Teams notification fires. What is noticeable is the outgoing direction itself: if you enable it, they hear a synthetic voice speaking your words a few seconds after you speak, rather than your own voice. That is audible by design. It is not a Teams integration either: it never reads the participant list, chat, meeting title, calendar entry or recording.
03Do I need a virtual microphone?
For Meeting mode on Windows, yes: its outgoing direction speaks into a virtual microphone, and the session will not start without one. Just hearing the other side in your language works with no extra driver in Video & Game mode. On Linux, the app creates its own virtual microphone.
04Can I use my free daily minutes for a Teams meeting?
No. The free tier does not cover Meeting mode. Meetings run on a paid balance, and both directions belong to the same session. The one exception is the free plan's one-time Pro taste: 15 minutes, once, with Meeting mode included.
05Does it work with Teams in the browser, or only the desktop app?
Both. Capture happens at the operating-system audio layer, so the application producing the sound does not matter — a Teams tab in Chrome or Edge is captured exactly like the desktop client. For the outgoing direction you additionally have to be able to select the virtual microphone where the call is running, which in a browser means granting the tab microphone permission first.
06Someone in the call says there is an extra voice echoing. What is wrong?
Almost always Teams' Speaker is pointed at the virtual cable. The cable then carries sound in both directions and the call feeds itself. Set Speaker back to your headphones and leave the cable in the Microphone slot only.