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February 4, 2025

Conversational AI

  • Agent monitoring: Added a new dashboard for monitoring conversational AI agents’ activity. Check out your’s here.
  • Proactive conversations: Enhanced capabilities with improved timeout retry logic. Learn more
  • Tool calls: Fixed timeout issues occurring during tool calls
  • Allowlist: Fixed implementation of allowlist functionality.
  • Content summarization: Added Gemini as a fallback model to ensure service reliability
  • Widget stability: Fixed issue with dynamic variables causing the Conversational AI widget to fail

Reader

  • Trending content: Added carousel showcasing popular articles and trending content
  • New publications: Introduced dedicated section for recent ElevenReader Publishing releases

Studio (formerly Projects)

  • Projects is now Studio and is now generally available to everyone
  • Chapter content editing: Added support for editing chapter content through the public API, enabling programmatic updates to chapter text and metadata
  • GenFM public API: Added public API support for podcast creation through GenFM. Key features include:
    • Conversation mode with configurable host and guest voices
    • URL-based content sourcing
    • Customizable duration and highlights
    • Webhook callbacks for status updates
    • Project snapshot IDs for audio downloads

SDKs

  • Swift: fixed an issue where resources were not being released after the end of a session
  • Python: added uv support
  • Python: fixed an issue where calls were not ending correctly

API

  • Added POST v1/speech-to-text endpoints supporting speech to text transcription
  • Added POST v1/workspace/invites/add-bulk endpoint to enable inviting multiple users simultaneously
  • Added POST v1/projects/podcast/create endpoint for programmatic podcast generation through GenFM
  • Added ‘v1/convai/knowledge-base/:documentation_id’ endpoints with CRUD operations for Conversational AI
  • Added v1/convai/tools tool management endpoints for extending Conversational AI agent capabilities
  • Added PATCH v1/projects/:project_id/chapters/:chapter_id endpoint for updating project chapter content and metadata
  • Added group_ids parameter to Workspace Invite endpoint for group-based access control
  • Added structured content property to Chapter response objects
  • Added retention_days and delete_transcript_and_pii data retention parameters to Agent creation
  • Added structured response to AudioNative content
  • Added convai_chars_per_minute usage metric to User endpoint
  • Added media_metadata field to Dubbing response objects
  • Added GDPR-compliant deletion_settings to Conversation responses
  • Deprecated Knowledge Base legacy endpoints:
    • POST /v1/convai/agents/{agent_id}/add-to-knowledge-base
    • GET /v1/convai/agents/{agent_id}/knowledge-base/{documentation_id}
  • Updated Agent endpoints with consolidated privacy control parameters
January 27, 2025