Product changelog and announcements

Effective October 1, 2022, usage for Voice Insights Advanced Features minutes will round up to the next minute. Your usage has been underbilled due to an error in our systems that calculate usage. We’ll absorb the historical cost of our error and you’ll see updated billing on your invoice starting October 1, 2022.

Most Twilio Voice products are usage-based and round up to the minute by default. There are no partial minutes; for example, a call that is 1 minute and 18 seconds is charged for 2 minutes. However, your contract may stipulate sub-minute billing for some billable items.

Segment has changed the UI and name of the Personas product to better align with marketing vs developer workflows and our repackaging.

With this change, you’ll now see new Profiles and Engage tabs in the app.

For more information, visit Segment's Unify documentation.

We recently discovered a bug in our calculation of Post Dial Delay (PDD) for PSTN/SIP calls with more than one routing attempt.This resulted in an incorrect calculation of PDD and for these calls we were reporting a PDD value which was higher than the actual value.Starting 23 September 2022 all calculations of PDD in VoiceInsights (Console and API) will reflect the correct and updated value.

For more information, please refer our docs.

Twilio Java Helper Library’s major version 9.0.0 is now available.We ensured that you can upgrade to Java Helper Library 9.0.0 version without any breaking changes.

Behind the scenes we improved our Java Helper Library generation process enabling us to rapidly add new features and enhance consistency across versions and languages.

To learn more about the Java Helper Library, check out our docs.

Cloud object sources are available to all users in the EU.

This update allows users in the EU region to use Cloud Object sources and sync data to warehouses with the same functionality as in the US.

The following list contains all cloud object sources that are available in the EU region:

• Facebook Ads
• Google Ads
• Salesforce
• Zendesk
• Stripe
• Intercom
• Mailchimp
• HubSpot
• Twilio
• Salesforce Marketing Cloud
• Marketo
• SendGrid
• Mandrill

The updated Mappings UI for Actions destinations is available to all users on all plans. It lets customers define how to map the event fields from their source to their destination in a new left-to-right layout. It also improves the discoverability of functionality to add a test event and to send a test event to the destination.

Link Shortening is now accessible in public beta on the Programmable Messaging API. This functionality enables you to programmatically shorten long links with your own company branded domain without any extra API calls. You can also set up your webhook to receive click events when recipients of the messages click on the shortened link.

Read our API documentation to get started.

Twilio SendGrid will retire Email Monitor on December 13, 2022. Email Monitor allows customers to retrieve a sample of their Subusers' emails for reputation monitoring. Due to low adoption, we will remove Email Monitor as part of our work to simplify and improve the Twilio SendGrid user experience.

On December 13, 2022, you will not be able to use or access Email Monitor. If Email Monitor is essential to your experience, please adapt your workflow or build a custom solution to fit your needs prior to this date.

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.

The Segment Public API enables customers to configure, manage, and scale their Segment implementations programmatically with a user-friendly API and more stable endpoints. As an upgrade to the existing Config API, customers can programmatically extend and duplicate existing schemas, instead of manual time-intensive processes in the UI.

The Public API addresses several customer issues concerning usability and speed while offering a broader range of configurations, better error-handling, and more interactive developer tooling.

For more information, see Segment’s Public API documentation and Public API Reference.