Government Teams users face another ******* month of filtered captions

Microsoft Teams will continue to automatically censor profanity in captions for some government users until the end of August, a month later than initially planned. In 2023, Microsoft introduced a toggle control for the profanity filter in Teams Live Captions, which replaced offensive words with asterisks. By default, the filter was enabled per user, rather than being controlled by the meeting organizer or tenant administrator.

However, Microsoft decided to disable the filter by default to ensure captions accurately reflect spoken content, supporting accessibility needs and aligning with regulatory requirements, such as those in the EU. Users could still turn the filter back on if desired. This change affected newly created users and those who hadn't previously configured the setting.

As a result, Live Captions might display unfiltered language during calls in certain government environments. The adjustment was initially targeted for rollout in June, but has now been pushed back to the end of August for government users in Community Cloud (GCC), GCC High, and Department of Defense environments. A delay in implementation means that profanity will remain censored by default in those settings for a few more weeks until the filter is fully applied.