Engineering Notes - Orbita Voice - 4.0.59 - Nov 21, 2019

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Last updated: Mar 02, 2020
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Orbita is pleased to announce many important new features, fixes, and other improvements to Orbita Voice. This post summarizes what is new and changed in the latest versions of these platforms.

These improvements were pushed to most customer environments. If you do not see these changes in your Orbita environment and are interested in any of the features or fixes described, please contact your Orbita representative or email us support@orbita.ai.

Engineering Notes v4.0.59 at a glance

Orbita Voice 4.0.59

Product Enhancements

Answers

  • By default, Facts are listed in Alphabetical order based on Topics names. If each fact contains multiple topics, the topics will be in Alphabetical order separated by a comma. The user can choose to display the facts in reverse Alphabetical order.

Experience Manager

  • The browser tab name reflects the Organization name. This can be specified in Organization Settings. The default name is Orbita Experience Manager.

Experience Designer

  • The Flow Manager node output payload includes the flow name at msg.payload.flowName and the flow description at msg.payload.flowDescription.

  • You can request Orbita to add your custom flows to the Orbita Flows folder (screenshot).
    In the below screenshot, the flow named Sample.json is present in the folder Orbita Flows-(BETA).

    The flows present in the folder Orbtia Flows can be accessed by the Voice Experience developers in any Project’s Experience Designer within the environment.

New Nodes

  • Answers Upload node. The admin users can place data into the Knowledge Base using this node.

  • Orbita NLP node. Using this node, the Voice Experience Developers can extract the Lists, Slot Values, and Synonyms from the user’s utterances.

Bug Fixes

A few issues were fixed in the current release, including but not limited to the ones described here. If you have any questions regarding an issue not listed below, please contact us.

  • Youtube videos can be played in both Say node and the Facts.

  • Dialog is renamed as Simple FAQ. Bulk add of utterances in Simple FAQ screen won’t add hard spaces.

  • For new projects, removed the error message on the Alexa Deployment screen.

  • Fixed the bug that logs out the users while deleting data.

  • The slot value and slot synonyms of an utterance can be found in the same output payload path msg.payload.orbita.intent.slots for both providers (Alexa and Google).

  • Fixed the bug that disabled the mic input of the chatbot.

  • Admin users can now deploy skills with the interaction model size greater than 1 MB.

  • Added delete icon to the first slot value.

  • Empty ptags that are tagged before and after in the flow studio chat text responses are removed from the output payload.