Document history for Amazon Lex V2 - Amazon Lex

Document history for Amazon Lex V2

  • Latest documentation update: May 10, 2024

The following table describes important changes in each release of Amazon Lex V2. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.

ChangeDescriptionDate

Update to AWS managed policy

Amazon Lex V2 added new permissions to the AmazonLexReadOnly managed policy to allow read access to bot resources that have been replicated in other regions.

May 10, 2024

Update to AWS managed policy

Amazon Lex V2 added new permissions to the AmazonLexFullAccess managed policy to allow updating of replicated bot resources to other regions.

April 15, 2024

Region expansion

Amazon Lex V2 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1).

March 22, 2024

Update to AWS managed policy

Amazon Lex V2 added new permissions to the AmazonLexReplicationPolicy managed policy to allow updating of replicated bot resources to other regions.

March 7, 2024

New function

You can use fn.LENGTH() function to determine the value length of a string value in Amazon Lex V2. For more information, see Conditional branching - Functions.

March 4, 2024

Update to feature

The QnA built-in slot for generative AI capabilities in Amazon Lex V2 is now GA. For more information, see Optimize bot creation and performance with generative AI.

February 28, 2024

Update to AWS managed policy

Amazon Lex V2 added new permissions to the AmazonLexReplicationPolicy managed policy to allow updating of replicated bot resources to other regions.

February 28, 2024

Update to AWS managed policy

Amazon Lex V2 added new permissions to the AmazonLexFullAccess managed policy to allow replication of bot resources to other regions.

February 8, 2024

New managed policy

Amazon Lex V2 added a managed policy providing permissions to replicate bot resources in other regions. For more information, see AmazonLexReplicationPolicy.

February 8, 2024

New feature

You can use Global resiliency to replicate your bot in a second AWS region in Amazon Lex V2. For more information, see Global resiliency.

February 8, 2024

New feature

You can now take advantage of generative AI capabilities in Amazon Lex V2. For more information, see Optimize bot creation and performance with generative AI.

November 29, 2023

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 can now use selective logging to capture text and/or audio at the intent or slot level. For more information, see Selective logging.

November 8, 2023

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 can now use a built-in slot to determine Yes/No/Maybe/Don't know responses using AMAZON.Confirmation. For more information, see Built-in Slot Types.

August 17, 2023

New feature

You can view the performance metrics of intents and slots, in addition to other conversational metrics using the analytics dashboard. For more information, see Analytics.

July 18, 2023

New feature

You can improve the accuracy and fulfillment success of your bot with the Test Workbench. For more information, see Test Workbench.

June 6, 2023

New feature

You can now create bots from a template for some popular business verticals. For more information, see Bot templates.

February 23, 2023

New feature

You can now combine multiple bots into a network of bots to create an integrated customer experience. For more information, see Network of bots.

February 9, 2023

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 now supports the Gulf Arabic (United Arab Emirates), Cantonese (Hong Kong), Finnish (Finland), Norwegian (Norway), Polish (Poland), and Swedish (Sweden) locales. For more information, see Languages and locales supported by Amazon Lex V2.

December 6, 2022

Updated to AWS managed policy

Amazon Lex V2 added new permissions to the AmazonLexReadOnly managed policy to allow the display of custom vocabulary items.

November 29, 2022

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 can display an alternative representation for a phrase or word by using the console or APIs to customize the speech to text output. For more information, see Creating a custom vocabulary for speech recognition.

November 7, 2022

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 can add a weight attribute to an item element that will represent the degree to which the phrase is boosted during speech recognition. For more information, see Grammar Weights.

October 28, 2022

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 can be used to capture free form input from the end user made up of words or characters using AMAZON.FreeFormInput. For more information, see Built-in Slot Types.

October 19, 2022

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 can display an alternative representation for a phrase or word in the final speech to text output. For more information, see Creating a custom vocabulary for speech recognition.

October 19, 2022

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 now supports the Hindi (India) and Dutch (The Netherlands) locales. For more information, see Languages and locales supported by Amazon Lex V2.

October 14, 2022

New feature

There was an update to the way Amazon Lex V2 manages user input. Now you can select whether Amazon Lex V2 accepts text, audio or DTMF input at any point in the conversation flow. For more information, see Configurable Attributes.

September 22, 2022

New feature

There was an update to the way Amazon Lex V2 manages conversation flows. Visual conversation builder is a drag and drop conversation builder to easily design and visualize conversation paths. For more information, see Visual Conversation Builder.

September 14, 2022

New feature

There was an update to the way Amazon Lex V2 builds complex slots. You can now create complex subslots within slots to manage intents in complex conversation design. For more information, see Building composite slots.

September 9, 2022

New feature

There was an update to the way Amazon Lex V2 manages the flow of conversational paths with your users. You can now create complex conversational paths by ordering the next step in the conversation. For more information, see Creating conversation paths.

August 17, 2022

New feature

There was an update to the way Amazon Lex V2 manages the flow of conversations with your users. You can now create complex conversations by ordering the prompts. For more information, see Configuring prompts.

July 5, 2022

New feature

There was an update to the way Amazon Lex V2 manages the flow of conversations with your users. You can now create complex conversations using conditions. For more information, see Understanding the new conversation flows.

May 3, 2022

New feature

Added example industry grammars for the built-in grammar slot type. For more information, see Industry grammars.

March 22, 2022

New feature

Added documentation about integrating Amazon Lex V2 with the Amazon Chime SDK. For more information, see Amazon Chime SDK.

March 18, 2022

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 now provides confidence scores for voice transcriptions. Use the score to help determine the correct response from the user. For more information, see Using voice transcription confidence scores.

January 27, 2022

New feature

You can now add contextual and dynamic hints to slots to improve the accuracy of your bot. For more information, see Using hints to improve accuracy.

January 13, 2022

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 adds support for custom vocabularies to improve speech recognition for audio input. For more information, see Creating a custom vocabulary to improve speech recognition.

January 12, 2022

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 now supports AWS PrivateLink. For more information, see VPC endpoints (AWS PrivateLink) .

January 7, 2022

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 now supports the Catalan (Spain) locale. For more information, see Languages and locales supported by Amazon Lex V2.

January 3, 2022

New feature

You can now create slot types using your own custom grammar. For more information, see Using a custom grammar slot type.

December 20, 2021

New feature

AWS CloudFormation now supports Amazon Lex V2. For more information, see AWS CloudFormation resources.

December 20, 2021

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 now supports the Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), and Mandarin (PRC) locales. For more information, see Languages and locales supported by Amazon Lex V2.

December 16, 2021

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 now provides a preview of the Automated Chatbot Designer to help you get started creating a chatbot from contact center transcripts. For more information, see Using the Automated Chatbot Designer (Preview).

December 1, 2021

New feature

You can now use spell-by-letter and spell-by-word styles for entering slot values that Amazon Lex V2 has difficulty understanding. For more information, see Using spelling styles to capture slot values.

November 19, 2021

New feature

You can now use Amazon Polly neural text to speech (NTTS) voices for audio conversations with your users. For more information, see Voices in Amazon Polly.

November 19, 2021

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 now supports the English (South Africa) locale. For more information, see Languages and locales supported by Amazon Lex V2.

November 9, 2021

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 now supports the German (Austria) locale. For more information, see Languages and locales supported by Amazon Lex V2.

November 5, 2021

New feature

You can now provide users with update messages that play at the start of a fulfillment function and periodically while the function runs. You can also create messages that inform the user of status of fulfillment when the function is complete. For more information, see Configuring fulfillment progress updates.

October 7, 2021

Region expansion

Amazon Lex V2 is now available in Africa (Cape Town) (af-south-1) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2).

September 22, 2021

New feature

You can now view statistics for the utterances that your users send to your bot. For more information, see Viewing utterance statistics.

September 22, 2021

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 now supports the Korean (Korea) locale. For more information, see Languages and locales supported by Amazon Lex V2.

September 9, 2021

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 now provides a built-in slot type for UK postal codes. For more information, see AMAZON.UKPostalCode.

July 27, 2021

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 now supports the English (Indian) locale. For more information, see Languages and locales supported by Amazon Lex V2.

July 15, 2021

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 now provides a tool to migrate a bot from Amazon Lex V1 to the Amazon Lex V2 API. For more information, see Migrating a bot in the Amazon Lex Developer Guide.

July 13, 2021

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 now enables you to accept multiple values for a single slot in the English (US) language. For more information, see Using multiple values in a slot.

June 15, 2021

New feature

You can now build larger bots for English languages. For more information, see Quotas.

June 11, 2021

New feature

Use Amazon Lex V2 resource-based policies to manage access to your bots and bot aliases. For more information, see Resource-based policies within Amazon Lex V2.

May 20, 2021

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 now enables you to import and export bots and bot locales. You can use this feature to copy bots and bot locales between accounts and AWS Regions. For more information, see Importing and exporting.

May 18, 2021

Region expansion

Amazon Lex V2 is now available in Canada (Central) (ca-central-1).

May 17, 2021

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 now supports the Japanese (Japan) locale. For more information, see Languages and locales supported by Amazon Lex V2.

April 1, 2021

New feature

Amazon Lex V2 now supports three new built-in slot types: AMAZON.City, AMAZON.Country, and AMAZON.State.

March 12, 2021

New guide

This is the first release of the Amazon Lex V2 user guide.

January 21, 2021