Conversational AI updates from MSBuild 2021
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Microsoft Bot Framework
In this section you’ll find the list of all updates related to the Microsoft Bot Framework (check out the official blog post on all the updates from here ):
Bot Framework Composer
- Bot Framework Composer 2.0 is GA
- Remember, in my blog post about Microsoft Build updates last year I reported, that Composer has been gone GA . Now 1 year forward, we now get the next major version of Composer with lots of great feautures and updates
- You can either download the desktop app from here for Windows , here for MacOS or here for Linux
- Bot Framework Composer 2.0 introduces new templates (both in C# & Node (Preview)):
- Empty Bot
- Core Bot with Language
- Core Bot with QnA Maker
- Core Assistant Bot
- Enterprise Assistant Bot
- Enterprise Calendar Bot
- Enterprise People Bot
- Bot Framework Components
are now available as a package management solution in Composer:
- You can now install reusable components built by Microsoft or the Bot Framework Community or you can even build your own reusable packages for your Bot Framework Composer based bots
- Publishing to Azure has been made easier
- The publishing process of your Composer built bots is getting a lot easier with the release of the integrated resource provisioning and publishing:
- New interaction types like speech and cards available in Composer to ease the authoring of text & voice bots by having a rich authoring experience including SSML
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- New Adaptive Runtime for all Bot Framework bots (Composer & SDK) which encapsulates many capabilities like multilingual support or access to Cognitive Services available
- Power Virtual Agent integration in Bot Framework Composer is now GA
- Consuming and developing skills in Composer has been improved and simplified
Conversational AI Platform
- Orchestrator deplaces Bot Framework Dispatch as a dispatching solution
- Conversational User Experience Guide
has been released with lots of useful information on how to build a good CUX
Azure Bot Service
- Azure Bot Service Telephony Channel in preview
- Azure Monitor support in Azure Bot Service
- Customer Managed Encryption Keys available in Azure Bot Service