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Live AI Captions with PowerPoint 365

  1. Equipment you will need on your order:
    1. An Office 365 laptop in the room in addition to any graphics laptops that are already reserved.
    2. An audio mixer in the room
    3. Some way to get an audio feed from the mixer into the laptop e.g. Shure X2u, Roland switcher, or similar.
    4. A main video switcher in the room e.g. ATEM or Roland. Depending on some factors of your setup, one Roland may be able to serve both functions.
  2. Take an audio feed from the mixer and connect it to the Office 365 laptop with a Shure X2u, Roland switcher, or similar.

  3. Take the HDMI output from the Office 365 laptop and connect it to an input on an ATEM switcher or similar.
  4. Open PowerPoint on the Office 365 laptop and sign in with your Markey's credentials. Note: A client should NEVER use a laptop that has Markey's credentials signed in, and client data should NEVER touch a laptop that has Markey's credentials signed in.
  5. Create a presentation with one slide that contains nothing but a green background.
  6. Enable live captions and select the Shure X2u (or whatever your audio input device is) as the microphone.
  7. In your main video switcher, key out the green background.
  8. Now you have an input on the switcher that is live AI captions that can be used as an overlay.