# May 26, 2025

### Forced Aligment

- **Forced alignment improvements**: Fixed a rare failure case in forced alignment processing to improve reliability.

### Voices

- **Live moderated voices filter**: Added `include_live_moderated` query parameter to the shared voices endpoint, allowing you to include or exclude voices that are live moderated.

### Agents Platform

- **Secret dynamic variables**: Added support for specifying dynamic variables as secrets with the `secret__` prefix. Secret dynamic variables can only be used in webhook tool headers and are never sent to an LLM, enhancing security for sensitive data. [Learn more](/guides/elevenagents-customization-personalization-dynamic-variables#secret-dynamic-variables).
- **Skip turn system tool**: Introduced a new system tool called **skip\_turn**. When enabled, the agent will skip its turn if the user explicitly indicates they need a moment to think or perform an action (e.g., "just a sec", "give me a minute"). This prevents turn timeout from being triggered during intentional user pauses. See the [skip turn tool docs](/guides/elevenagents-customization-tools-system-tools-skip-turn) for more information.
- **Text input support**: Added text input support in websocket connections via "user\_message" event with text field. Also added "user\_activity" event support to indicate typing or other UI activity, improving agent turn-taking when there's interleaved text and audio input.
- **RAG chunk limit**: Added ability to configure the [maximum number of chunks](https://elevenlabs.io/docs/api-reference/agents/create#request.body.conversation_config.agent.prompt.rag.max_retrieved_rag_chunks_count) collected during RAG retrieval, giving users
  more control over context window usage and costs.
- **Enhanced widget configuration**: Expanded widget customization options to include [text input and text only mode](/guides/changelog-api-reference-widget-get#response.body.widget_config.text_only).
- **LLM usage calculator**: Introduced tools to calculate expected LLM token usage and costs for agents, helping with cost estimation and planning.

### Audio Native

- **Accessibility improvements**: Enhanced accessibility for the AudioNative player with multiple improvements:
  - Added aria-labels for all buttons
  - Enabled keyboard navigation for all interactive elements
  - Made progress bar handle focusable and keyboard-accessible
  - Improved focus indicator visibility for better screen reader compatibility

### API

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## New Endpoints

- Added 3 new endpoints:
  - [Get Agent Knowledge Base Size](https://elevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/api-reference/knowledge-base/size) - Returns the number of pages in the agent's knowledge base.
  - [Calculate Agent LLM Usage](/guides/changelog-api-reference-agents-calculate) - Calculates expected number of LLM tokens needed for the specified agent.
  - [Calculate LLM Usage](/guides/changelog-api-reference-agents-calculate) - Returns a list of LLM models and the expected cost for using them based on the provided values.

## Updated Endpoints

### Voices

- [Get Shared Voices](https://elevenlabs.io/docs/api-reference/voices#get-shared-voices) - Added `include_live_moderated` query parameter to `GET /v1/shared-voices` to filter voices by live moderation status.

### Agents Platform

- **Agent Configuration**:

  - Enhanced system tools with new `skip_turn` tool configuration
  - Improved RAG configuration with `max_retrieved_rag_chunks_count` parameter

- **Widget Configuration**:

  - Added support for text-only mode

- **Batch Calling**:
  - Batch call responses now include `phone_provider` field with default value "twilio"

### Text to Speech

- **Voice Settings**:
  - Added `quality` parameter to voice settings for controlling audio generation quality
  - Model response schema updated to include `can_use_quality` field
:::

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