Happy New Year 2021 from Dasha

In this New Year Release 🥳 we're introducing features that improve developer experience.

Platform

Add inbound telephony: now you can accept incoming calls using any VoIP provider.
External TTS support: you can now use your own or 3rd-party speech synthesis (but you'll love Dasha TTS!).
No account onboarding: start using Dasha without even signing-up

Dasha Script

Multiple conditions in digressions: you can now define multiple entry conditions on digressions that have, for instance, different tags and/or priorities
Logging support for any object type: it will be serialized and displayed in readable form in your application log
Conversation end event tag: you can now customize your application behavior when the other party disconnects (e.g. hangs up on you)

Dasha Studio

Import (multifile) support for navigation and refactorings: e.g. you can now go to definition that is in another file

Rename refactoring support: you can now use VS Code (or any language client) support for rename refactorings and never miss a node reference that needs changing again
dasha studio rename

Optimize language server download time (CDN)

Dasha SDK for Node.JS

Added scheduler: now you can set complex rules for reaching out to your users
Basic start diagnostics
sdk diagnostics

Dasha CLI

New Dasha account creation: now you can create new Dasha account right from terminal
Logging in via CLI, without API key
SIP configuration: configure Dasha to work with your existing VoIP provider with one command
Grab Dasha CLI here
dasha-cli 12

Documentation

Full text search for docs.dasha.ai
full text search

New format for tutorials
interactive tutorial

Stay tuned for more in January 2021! Happy holidays! 🥳

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