Vocode

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-core/compare/v0.1.113...v0.1.114a0

Super excited to announce a new release after a while - this release is special, in that it marks a change for Vocode. Going forward, we will be working on Vocode Core as our priority, and no longer gating functionality behind our Hosted API - the foundation for the API will be available here in **vocode-core**. Our team will be building features to benefit the whole community, and it'll all be open source.

Highlights

👥 Conversation Mechanics

- Better endpointing (agnostic of transcribers)
- Better interruption handling
- [Guide](https://docs.vocode.dev/open-source/conversation-mechanics)

🕵️ Agents

- ✨NEW✨ Anthropic-based Agent
- Supports all Claude 3 Models
- OpenAI GPT-4o Support
- Azure OpenAI revamp

💪 Actions

- ✨NEW✨ External Actions - [Guide](https://docs.vocode.dev/open-source/external-action)
- Improved Call Transfer
- ✨NEW✨ Wait Actions (IVR Navigation)
- ✨NEW✨ Phrase triggers for actions (instead of function calls) - [Guide](https://docs.vocode.dev/open-source/action-phrase-triggers)

🗣️ Synthesizers

- ElevenLabs
- ✨NEW✨ Websocket-based Client
- Updated RESTful client
- ✨NEW✨ PlayHT Synthesizer “v2” with [PlayHT On-Prem](https://docs.play.ht/reference/on-prem) Support
- [Rime Mist](https://rimelabs.mintlify.app/api-reference/models) support

✍️ Transcribers

- ✨NEW✨ Deepgram [built-in endpointing](https://developers.deepgram.com/docs/endpointing)

📞 Telephony

- Twilio
- Stronger interruption handling by [clearing audio queues](https://www.twilio.com/docs/voice/media-streams/websocket-messages#send-a-clear-message)
- Vonage
- Koala Noise Suppression

🎉 DevEx / Miscellaneous

- ✨NEW✨  Loguru for improved logging formatting - [Guide](https://docs.vocode.dev/open-source/logging-with-loguru)
- Some new utilities to make setting up loguru in your projects fast and easy 😉
- Sentry for Metric / Error Collection - [Guide](https://docs.vocode.dev/open-source/sentry)
- Clean handling of content filters in ChatGPT agents
- Redis Message Queue for tracking mid-call events across different instances

Thanks so much to the folks who worked on this! arpagon, DanteNoguez, rjheeta, skirdey, ajar98, adnaans, Kian1354, srhinos, VladCuciureanu

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-core/compare/v0.1.111...v0.1.113

🚀 Features:
- `digits` parameter in `OutboundCall` to send DTMF tones to a phone call before the call is picked up
- Azure OpenAI support for `ChatGPTAgent`
- Tracing docs: https://docs.vocode.dev/tracing
- Refactors Agents as workers ([PR](https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python/pull/140)) - now, user implemented agents have full access to the output queue, which means they can send responses into the conversation without being specifically prompted. e.g. "Are you still there?"

🌅 On the horizon:
- Benchmarking app to time various transcribers, agents, and synthesizers
- Support for taking actions in a conversation: see [wip PR](https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python/pull/120)