- Introducing
SmsSendTool
for SMS messaging support: You can now create and sendsms
text messages using the new[Send Text
](https://api.vapi.ai/api#:~:text=SmsSendTool) tool, enabling assistants to send SMS messages via defined servers.

-
Eleven Labs Voice Auto Mode and Confidence Threshold configuration options: When using
Eleven Labs Voice
in your Assistant, you can now configureautoMode
(default: false) to automatically manage manage chunking strategies for long texts; Eleven Labs automatically determines the best way to process and generate audio, optimizing for latency and efficiency. Additionally,confidenceThreshold
has been introduced in transcriber schemas, allowing developers to set thresholds to discard low-confidence transcriptions and improve accuracy. -
Changes to
CartesiaExperimentalControls
Speed property: Thespeed
property now accepts both predefined speeds ('slowest'
,'slow'
,'normal'
,'fast'
,'fastest'
) and numeric values between -1 and 1. This simplifies the process of controlling the speed of the generated audio with Cartesia.