24th Feb - Usability enhancements, Faster Voice Intelligence

New better Script Syntax

Based on over 50 user interviews, over the past 18 months we realised that our old script syntax had some usability issues. We're now launching a much more usable script syntax :100:
You can have a look here from our beta testers we found it was much easier to write and we've observed less bugs in our monitoring (up to 20% less bugs)

Here's a teaser

<as:section name="hello">
    Hello world, this section is named hello. 
</as:section>

Faster Voice Intelligence

We're super excited about Voice Intelligence which enables our AI voices to speak like a human. We've been hard at work on this over the last few months.

Up to 5x faster voice intelligence :rocket: :speedboat:

  • You'll notice these improvements most with the normaliser as the normaliser produces very loooong text strings. :100:

Benchmarks from our tests

  • We can now process a 10,000 character script in ~10 seconds
  • Before this was taking ~50 seconds

Documentation

  • We updated our documentation to add billing info and the media files.
  • We also made quality improvements.

Performance enhancement

  • One issue we had in the past was that when you added many users - we faced some slowdowns in authorisation. Now thanks to our design, and the help of Oso our authoriser now performs ~100ms. We are constantly investing in these improvements and more are coming :rocket:

Bug Fixes

Not necessarily bugs but we implemented a few changes for our customers

  • We increased validity time of user invitations from 1 day to 7 days. Until now some users were caught out by this.
  • We fixed a bug in our authentication service causing occasional failure in child org creation.
  • We fixed some bugs in our Voice Cloning experience. This should be even more awesome.