Genesys Cloud - Virtual assistant (bots and IVR) tag

List of the Genesys Cloud release notes that include the Virtual assistant (bots and IVR) release notes tag.
May 31, 2023

Contact Center

  • Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows and Genesys Digital Bot Flows Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Turkish language support

Deprecations and announcements

  • Knowledge workbench V1 deprecation
  • Genesys Dialog Engine deprecation postponement
  • Mandatory US and Canada SMS/MMS registration

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April 26, 2023

Contact Center

  • Generative AI to summarize agent digital interactions
  • New workforce management scheduling menu
  • Automatic language detection for digital interactions
  • Show or hide top searched articles in Support Center
  • Bulk changes to knowledge base question and answer articles
  • Copy an existing evaluation or web survey form
  • Customer Journeys tab in the Interactions View
  • Canned responses source code/HTML editor
  • Access to Queue Agent Details View by division membership

Integrations

  • Introduction of OAuth 2.0 for custom SMTP integration

Deprecations and announcements

  • Customer journey tab replacement

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April 19, 2023

Platform

  • Single sign-on configuration enhancement

Contact Center

  • Campaign performance views for agents
  • Progressive prompts in Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows and Genesys Digital Bot Flows
  • Add Max No Input task to Architect bot actions
  • Performance insights view
  • Filter by evaluation form name

Integrations

  • Nuance Mix integration support in Australia

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April 12, 2023

Contact Center

  • External contacts Profile tab updates
  • Import question and answer FAQs from URLs

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March 29, 2023

Communicate

  • Built-in Genesys Cloud WebRTC diagnostics application improvements

Contact Center

  • External contacts Profile tab updates
  • Extended voice transcription services support for Dutch, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and additional English languages
  • Archive and unarchive learning modules

Integrations

  • Automatic regionalization of endpoints for existing Google Cloud TTS and STT  integrations
  • Custom voices support for the Google Cloud Text-to-Speech integration

Deprecations and announcements

  • Static data actions for web service data actions integration removal

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March 22, 2023

Communicate

  • Transcription for Communicate voicemails
  • Active speaker indicators

Contact Center

  • Additional voice transcription accuracy improvements for Spanish
  • Approve time-off requests based on agent hire date
  • Evaluation source in evaluation cards
  • Enhanced pagination control in analytics workspace views
  • Queue Performance Summary chart view
  • Metric values in views with duration statistics
  • Transcription for Communicate voicemails
  • Restricted access to details about predictive routing agents
  • Delete a knowledge base

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation of select filters in Analytics API in Predictive Engagement

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March 15, 2023

Contact Center

  • Topic spotting improvement
  • Extend after call work (ACW) timeout settings to digital channels
  • Agent requested after call work (ACW) option
  • After call work (ACW) analytics for callbacks improvement
  • Genesys Cloud Dialog Engine Bot Flows and Genesys Digital Bot Flows Dutch support
  • Genesys natural language understanding (NLU) improvements

Integrations

  • Genesys AppFoundry improvements

Deprecations and announcements

  • Static data actions for web service data actions integration
  • Genesys Predictive Engagement on Genesys Engage hybrid solutions deprecation

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March 8, 2023

Collaborate

  • Set time to return to previous status after users disconnect and reconnect

Communicate

  • US and Canada numbers available for Genesys Cloud Voice EMEA Regions

Contact center

  • Introducing Genesys Cloud Background Assistant for screen recording with the web app
  • Introducing regional storage for call recordings
  • SSML support in Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows
  • New Search endpoint
  • New variables and improvements for scripts
  • Improved do not contact (DNC) list functionality to support custom values
  • Communicate call classification update

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February 22, 2023

Communicate

  • Require the WebRTC Media Helper
  • WebHID technology for Jabra headsets re-enablement

Contact center

  • Improved interval granularity for a specific time span during performance metrics exports
  • Improved module scheduling
  • Scorecard tab improvements in the agent activity view

Deprecations and announcements

  • journeyCustomer cookie id from GDPR API subjects response deprecation
  • Customer journey tab replacement
  • Genesys legacy Dialog Engine deprecation
  • Knowledge workbench V1 deprecation

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February 8, 2023

Contact center

  • Automatic knowledge surfacing with Genesys Agent Assist
  • Cards and carousels in the CX digital agent workspace
  • Images and email addresses as hyperlinks in knowledge base articles
  • Jump to reusable tasks in Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows
  • Encrypt and decrypt data in Architect flows
  • Mine topics from messaging transcripts
  • Intent miner German language support

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December 21, 2022

Contact center

  • Co-browse for web messaging
  • Automatic email signatures in canned responses
  • Enhanced canned responses editor options
  • Rich media in knowledge base articles
  • Genesys Cloud native text-to-speech (TTS) French and Spanish support

Integrations

  • Introducing the Google Cloud Speech-to-Text (STT) integration
  • Microsoft Teams integration enhancements

Platform

  • Single sign-on configuration enhancements

Deprecations and announcements

  • OS Family attribute in Predictive Engagement
  • Windows 7 support for the desktop app deprecation
  • Canned reports deprecation date updates
  • CIDR IP address range for cloud media services expansion postponement

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December 14, 2022

Communicate

  • WebHID technology for Jabra headsets
  • Telephony administrator user interface updates

Contact center

  • Genesys Agent Assist available in Genesys Cloud Embedded Clients
  • Import and export knowledge base articles in additional formats
  • No input timeout settings in Genesys Digital Bot Flows
  • Call digital bot flows from Architect in-queue message flows
  • Sentiment data in Agent Queue Detail and Queue Agent Detail views
  • Topic spotting improvement
  • Japanese programs, topics, and phrases support
  • Usability improvements to messaging and email in the Transcript tab
  • Genesys Cloud forecasting user interface updates

Deprecations and announcements

  • Genesys Cloud SSO certificate expiry
  • CIDR IP address range for cloud media services expansion

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October 19, 2022

Contact center

  • Analyze feedback from the knowledge workbench
  • Hyperlinks in knowledge base articles
  • Typing indicators available for Messenger Transport Mobile SDK
  • Arabic voice transcription support

Deprecations

  • Genesys Cloud SSO certificate expiry
  • CIDR IP address range for cloud media services expansion

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October 12, 2022

Contact center

  • Single customer view powered by identity resolution available in all regions
  • Introducing Genesys Enhanced Text-to-Speech integration
  • Shift trading on iOS and Android devices
  • Secure bot flows in Architect
  • Audit log viewer for action maps
  • Agent Locale Scripter variable for agent’s chosen language
  • Sentiment feedback, content search, and Interactions view icon updates

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September 28, 2022

Contact center

  • Cards for bot conversations
  • Carousels for bot conversations
  • Manually assign waiting interactions
  • Routing metrics added to Queue Agent Detail and Agents Queues Detail views
  • Interactions views fax column and filter
  • Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services text-to-speech (TTS) integration

Platform

  • Improved user activity indicators
  • Genesys Cloud subscription name updates

Deprecations

  • API default profile change for gamification metrics postponement

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September 21, 2022

Contact center

  • Single customer view powered by identity resolution available in select regions
  • Predictive Engagement outcome value configuration and reporting
  • Extended voice transcription services
  • Agent status widget improvements
  • Web messaging image copy and paste
  • Extend Bot Connecter PostUtterance response timeout

Platform

  • Process automation triggers

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September 14, 2022

Collaborate

  • Video chat participant notifications

Contact center

  • Introducing the Knowledge Performance dashboard
  • My Interactions view for agents
  • Genesys Messenger conversation auto-start
  • Audience size estimator for action maps in Predictive Engagement
  • Test regular expression slot types before implementation
  • Nuance Mix integration in Architect secure flows
  • Amazon Lex V2 bots in Architect secure flows
  • Google Cloud Dialogflow CX bots in Architect secure flows
  • Nuance TTS integration in Architect secure flows
  • Genesys Enhanced TTS in Architect secure flows
  • 988 Suicide Hotline number plan available with Genesys Cloud Voice
  • Genesys Messenger support for Portuguese
  • Intent miner French language support

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August 31, 2022

Communicate

  • Genesys Cloud WebRTC diagnostics app improvements

Contact center

  • Genesys Digital Bot Flows
  • SMS message delivery status
  • Reset agent personal bests in gamification
  • Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows support for Portuguese
  • Improved voice transcription accuracy for Dutch

Integrations

  • Cross-region export option for AWS S3 recording bulk actions integration

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August 24, 2022

Contact center

  • Introducing knowledge workbench version 2
  • Optimize the knowledge base
  • Introducing support center
  • Knowledge workbench version 2, knowledge optimizer, and support center language search support
  • Interaction data retention time improvement

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August 3, 2022

Contact center

  • Introducing Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services speech-to-text (STT) integration
  • Custom payload for Google Cloud Dialogflow speech models
  • Analyze predictive routing decisions
  • Dynamic contact list sorting during a running campaign

Platform

  • Improved phone number validation in Directory profiles

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July 27, 2022

Communicate

  • BYOC Cloud TLS X.509 certificate renewal

Contact center

  • Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flow Insights and Optimizations menu

Integrations

  • Introducing Genesys Cloud for Microsoft Teams

Platform

  • Windows 11 support for the desktop app

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July 6, 2022

Contact center

  • Introducing contact center work teams
  • Predictive routing queue detail report
  • External metrics for performance scorecards
  • Topics and sentiment metrics consolidation
  • Amazon Lex integration in Canada (Central) AWS region

Integrations

  • SMTP server integration email error notifications to agents

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June 29, 2022

Platform

  • Automatically log out inactive users

Communicate

  • Introducing Global Media Fabric
  • LATAM numbers for Genesys Cloud Voice in US, Canada, and EMEA
  • New Poly CCX supported phones

Contact center

  • Custom dynamic list slot types in Architect bot flows (Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows)
  • Improved module assignment workflow
  • Adjust wrap-up codes and notes using the API

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June 22, 2022

Contact center

  • Reset and reassign development and feedback modules
  • Interaction evaluation form version tracking
  • Blocked offer views for Predictive Engagement journey action maps
  • Rich text formatting in bot messages
  • Interactions UI improvement
  • Intent miner Spanish language support
  • Web chat widget support for Google Fonts

Deprecations

  • Canned reports deprecation
  • API default profile change for gamification metrics

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June 15, 2022

Contact center

  • Improved wait time for call recording download and playback
  • Prioritize order of performance and development information in Agent activity view
  • Amazon Lex integration in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS region

Deprecations

  • Bridge integrations deprecation
  • Website visitor count API change

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