Recent Alan Platform updates¶

Below you can find the most recent additions and updates to the Alan Platform.

8/22/2023	Alan SDKS	Added new states for the Alan AI button: `NO_PERMISSION`, `NO_VOICE_SUPPORT`, `INSECURE_ORIGIN`.
8/17/2023	Server API	It is now possible to define homophones for specific terms in dialog scripts.
8/15/2023	Alan Studio	It is now possible to select a font for the Alan AI Chat.
8/10/2023	Alan SDKS	Added textChat.isAudioOutputEnabled() and textChat.setAudioOutputEnabled() methods to enable audio in the Alan AI Chat.
7/5/2023	Server API	Added the table API enabling semantic search within JSON-formatted data (available in Action Transformer v4.1).
	Server API	Added the generator API to generate a structured responsed based on JSON-formatted data (available in Action Transformer v4.1).
	Server API	Added the query API to query `corpus` programatically and retrieve a response (available in Action Transformer v4.1).
6/9/2023	Alan SDKS	Introduced an ability to enable and disable the QR code reader for the AI assistant project.
5/19/2023	Alan SDKS	A newer version of the custom wake word is released.
4/5/2023	Alan Studio	Introduced UI improvements for the Alan AI Web Chat.
3/15/2023	Alan Studio	Added an ability to define the text size for the text area in the Alan AI Web Chat.
3/2/2023	Alan Studio	It is now possible to use a custom logo on top of the Alan AI Web Chat button.
2/1/2023	Alan SDKS	A newer version of the custom wake word is released.
1/30/2023	Alan Studio	It is now possible to define the speaking pitch to customize the AI assistant’s voice.
1/16/2023	Alan Studio	The user can now interact with the AI assistant using the text and voice AI chat (available on Web).
11/21/2022	Alan SDKS	Added sendText() client API method support for Flutter, React Native and Ionic apps.
11/21/2022	Server API	Play options are now supported on the Web platform
10/10/2022	Alan SDKS	Added sendText() client API method (available on Web, iOS and Android).
10/10/2022	Server API	Added p.score storing the the match score assigned to the intent that is considered the best match for the user’s utterance.
8/22/2022	Alan Studio	An AI assistant built with Alan AI can now be activated with a custom wake word.
8/9/2022	Alan Studio	Alan AI offers the Q&A service that adds a conversational layer on top of your resources to build a Q&A AI assistant.
8/9/2022	Server API	It is now possible to specify a list of websites and strings in the `corpus()` function for the Q&A AI assistant.
7/18/2022	Alan Studio	It is now possible to add a GitHub repository to follow a CI/CD workflow.
6/28/2022	Alan SDKs	The scripts event is now emitted when a script is saved in the AI assistant project in Alan Studio.
6/13/2022	Alan Studio	Alan button popups can now be viewed and edited in the popup editor.
6/13/2022	Alan SDKs	Added getWakewordEnabled() and setWakewordEnabled() client API methods (available on iOS and Android).

5/24/2022	Alan Studio	The user can now revoke access to Alan AI from GitHub (required to refresh repositories list).
	Alan Studio	It is now possible to select a GitHub organization when syncing with GitHub.
	Alan Studio	Added search by GitHub organization name.
5/10/2022	Alan Studio	Added search by GitHub repository name.
	Alan Studio	Project API methods can now be tested in Alan Studio with custom parameters.
	Server API	It is now possible to specify play options in the `p.play()` function (supported on iOS and Android).
	Alan SDKs	Ionic Vue support is now generally available.