Twilio Changelog

Twilio has updated its Text-to-Speech offering adding support for new Amazon Polly Neural Voices. This release includes higher quality voices for the following languages: French (Canada) (fr-CA), English (UK) (en-UK), German (de-DE), English (India) (en-IN), Hindi (hi-IN) and Spanish (US) (es-US).

Try new enhanced voices in your IVR applications by selecting them in the Text-to-Speech section of the Twilio Console, by setting them in your TwiML <Say> attributes or using Studio <Say> Widget. For more information on the voices and on pricing, please visit Twilio Text-to-Speech docs.

Monitor fraudulent attempts to send SMS that were detected and blocked by Verify Automatic SMS fraud detection (ASFD), Geo-permissions, and more.

Check it out on the console and read our documentation to learn more.

Twilio Frontline's web client (beta) now supports browser push notificaations on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. The web interface will now also indicate new unread message counts in the primary navigation and browser tab.

Twilio SendGrid no longer supports SendGrid for New Relic and the related integration features as of August 30, 2022.

Effective August 30, 2022, Twilio SendGrid removed New Relic integrations and dashboard. If you used New Relic integrations to review your email program metrics, please use Deliverability Insights for a streamlined, in-app view of your email delivery performance over time.

This removal does not affect your ability to send mail.

Message Scheduling can now be used to develop compliant healthcare applications that contain protected health information (PHI) for organizations that are subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Twilio will sign Business Associate Addendums (BAA) with covered entities and business associates for HIPAA Eligible Products and Services.

Learn more about how to build on Twilio for HIPAA compliance.

Twilio Verify has released Automatic SMS Fraud Detection to help you combat fraud and improve your SMS OTP conversion rate. This feature works automatically at no additional cost.

• Read our blog about how it has already helped some customers reduce their daily spend by as much as 35% and doubled their conversion rate in certain countries.
• Check out our docs for feature details.

Twilio has implemented an urgent precautionary measure to protect Programmable Messaging accounts created before April 2019 from possible exploitations of their service by automatically disabling unused SMS Geo Permissions. We’re taking this action to protect customers from potential fraud known as SMS Traffic Pumping. Given the rise of fraud in the ecosystem, we want to help ensure that we minimize potential exploits and reduce the risks faced by our customers. Disabling destination countries your business doesn’t serve or uses infrequently is an additional line of defense against fraudulent activity. See this Help Center article for more information on SMS Traffic Pumping Fraud and how to protect your applications from it.

Why only accounts created before April 2019?

Accounts created during and before March 2019 previously had SMS Geo Permissions enabled globally by default. For our customers’ convenience and protection, Twilio will disable SMS Geo Permissions on a one-time basis for country destinations to which messages have not been sent in the 30 day period from 23 July 2022 to 22 August 2022. This one-time action on accounts will begin on 25 August 2022 and end on or before 9 September 2022.

If needed, you can enable or disable SMS Geo Permissions to any country at any time in Twilio Console by following the steps in this Support Article.

Twilio Message Scheduling is now generally available for use!

Message scheduling enables developers to schedule and send an SMS, MMS or WhatsApp for a time in the future, all within a single API call. Iterations since our beta release include adding support for HIPAA Eligibility, enabling a scheduled message to send 15 min in advance (previously 60 min), and increasing the account usage limitations to enable higher volume sending.

For more information, see the Message Scheduling Documentation.

We are excited to announce AI-Based Noise Cancellation in Twilio Video to help developers remove unwanted sounds and build high quality meeting experiences. Built in partnership with leading noise suppression vendor Krisp.ai, the Krisp Audio Plugin for Twilio Video can be added to your browser application in a few lines of code.

This feature is available for Group Rooms in the JavaScript SDK. Please read our documentation to learn how to use noise cancellation in your video application. You can also watch a demo of this feature and learn more about the value of noise cancellation in our blog.

TaskRouter now supports the evaluation of Activity name and SID in Worker expressions for the Worker-list API.

For example, developers can use this to fetch workers in different activities
using GET /Workers?TargetWorkersExpression=activity_name in ['ABC',
'XYZ'] or to fetch workers using a partial name match using GET /Workers?TargetWorkersExpression=activity_name contains 'MNO'.

For more detailed information please refer to the expression syntax documentation and the Worker Resource documentation.