6 months ago, we released Jovo v3
with lots of integrations with platforms like Samsung Bixby, the web, and various ASR and NLU services.
Since then, with help from our great community, we've ben working on a lot of new features, bugfixes, and integrations. Everything is now bundled togeher in Jovo v3.1
.
You can find all new features and improvements below:
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New Features and Integrations
Below is a list of new features that we're excited about. You can find the full changelog here.
Build Conversational Agents for Google Business Messages
Learn more about Google Business Messages in the Jovo Marketplace.
Ever went to Google Maps to search for a business? I bet.
What if there could be a "Message" button right next to your business loation on Google Maps, Search, and other touchpoints your customers have with you in the Google ecosystem? Google Business Messages is all about this.
And with Jovo, you can now build automated conversational experiences for Google Business. Learn more in the Jovo Marketplace.
Open Source NLU with NLP.js
Jovo now supports the free and open source natural language understanding (NLU) library NLP.js.
This integration allows you to host your own NLU service without sending data to an external API. Learn more in the Jovo Marketplace. Our Lindenbaum tutorial already uses this integration.
New Phone Integrations
This year, the need to provide automated customer support on the phone has been going through the roof. Since 3.0
, there were two integrations added that help you build phone bots:
- Lindenbaum Cognitive Voice
- Dialogflow Phone Gateway, added by community member Stephen Wilcox
Improvements and Bugfixes
There are lots improvements that we've added in the last few months. Some of them include:
- Various CLI improvements, find the changelog here
- Improvements to the logging JSON output
- Google Analytics improvements by community member André Heraucourt
- SSML support for Bixby
- DynamoDb improvements by community member Mark Tucker
How to Update
To update to the latest version of Jovo, use the following commands:
Breaking Changes
For users of our Facebook Messenger integration, take a look at this breaking change about asynchronous messages.
A Big Thank You
Thanks a lot for all your help to the contributors of this release, including:
- RokasVaitkevicius
- Mark Tucker
- AndresContreras96
- André Heraucourt
- Stephen Wilcox
- Dustin Coates
- Dominik Meissner
- Joy A
- Stephane C
- Awolad Hossain
- Andrew Doyon
- Voice-First-AI
- Nick Fleker
- Ruben Aegerter
- Kaan Kilic
- Max Ripper
- Alex Swetlow
And to everyone else who helped with ideas and feature requests in the Jovo Slack and Jovo Community Forum!