Google is sunsetting Conversational Actions, which allow you to create custom
experiences or conversations for Google Assistant users. To ensure you have
sufficient time to plan with care and support your users, the turndown is
occurring on
June 13, 2023
.
These docs provide the information you need to prepare for the Conversational
Actions sunset. They are organized in the following way:
Conversational Actions sunset overview
:
Describes general information about the turndown and addresses the most
fundamental questions for developers.
Changelog
: Provides a chronological
record of all updates related to the turndown.
Actions console analytics
sunset
: Describes the turndown of
Actions console analytics for Conversational Actions.
FAQ
: Provides a list of additional questions
and answers for developers.
Support
: Provides information about
support channels for further inquiries.
The following table defines the terms and timelines related to the sunset:
|
Sunset period
|
Turned down/deprecated state
|
Dates
|
June 13, 2022 - June 12, 2023
|
June 13, 2023 and onwards
|
Details
|
Users can invoke Conversational Actions. Development tools will be available, though some features may be deprecated (see
Changelog
for details).
|
Users and developers can no longer access Conversational Actions. Tools and features related to Conversational Actions are no longer available (see
What is being removed?
).
|
Thank you for being an integral part of the Google Assistant ecosystem. We look
forward to continuing to invest in voice experiences, and working with you to
build the future of Assistant. To learn more about the future of Assistant’s
developer ecosystem, see the
Conversational Actions
sunset
blog post.
What is being removed?
On
June 13, 2023
, the following content and functionality will be removed:
- Conversational Actions
: Conversational Actions are Actions that extend
the functionality of Assistant with custom conversational experiences.
All Conversational Actions will be removed, and will no longer be
available to users or developers.
On
September 13, 2022
, the following feature was removed:
- Actions console analytics
:
Analytics in the Actions console
provide information about your Action’s
usage. As of
September 13, 2022
you can no longer access your
Conversational Action’s analytics in the console.
Other features and products related to Conversational Actions may be removed
before June 13, 2023. See the
Changelog
for
the most up-to-date information about these removals. You will also be notified
of any removals if/when they occur.
How do I know if my Action is a Conversational Action?
Conversational Actions extend the functionality of Assistant with custom
conversational experiences. To check if your Action is a Conversational Action,
follow these steps:
- Go to the
Actions console
.
- Open your Actions project.
- Click
Overview
in the top navigation.
- Check for a banner at the top that says that your project is a
Conversational Action.
If there is no banner, your Actions project is not a Conversational Action and
won’t be affected. Note that the banner appears for both deployed and undeployed
Conversational Actions.
What can I do with Conversational Actions until June 13, 2023?
You can still do the following until
June 13, 2023
:
- View and edit your existing Conversational Action.
You can continue to
make changes to your Conversational Action until the sunset date. If you
modify your Action and release it to production, it must pass Google’s
review process again.
- Create and deploy new Conversational Actions to production.
Google is
maintaining functionality and tooling for Conversational Actions until the
sunset date, so you can continue to create and deploy Conversational
Actions. Your new Conversational Action is still required to pass a review
process before it is deployed to production. For more information about this
process, see
Release your Action
.
How will this change affect my users?
Users can continue to invoke and use your CA until
June 13, 2023.
Additionally, we've upgraded to higher quality Text to Speech (TTS) voices for
the following locales:
es-ES
es-419
th-TH
zh-HK
pt-BR
da-DK
sv-SE
These TTS improvements are available to your users with no work needed on your
part.
What will happen to non-Conversational Action development paths?
The following development paths for Actions will continue to exist, and are
unaffected by this turndown:
For more information about upcoming changes and improvements to these
development paths, see the following sections.
App Actions
To more accurately reflect how App Actions fits into the Android ecosystem,
we’ve
migrated App Actions documentation to the Android developer site
. You
can see the App Actions docs in their new location
here
.
The
App Actions shortcuts API has exited beta and is generally available
.
This release means that your App Actions implementations that use
shortcuts.xml
are fully supported through our
support
channels
. For more information, see
the
blog post
about this release.
Smart home
We’re committed to delivering the best smart home developer experience. The new
Google Home Developer Console
makes it easy
to build Matter-enabled devices and apps with added features and functionality.
You can find all smart home
documentation
in the
Google Home Developer Center
.
To stay informed, subscribe to the
Google Home Developer
Newsletter
.
Actions from web content
Web integrations, which allow you to automatically generate Actions from your
web content markup, will continue under Search. We have no changes to announce
at this time.
Media Actions feeds let you describe your media content to Google, which enables
users to discover your content on Google Search and Google Assistant and
initiate playback of the content. We have received a large number of requests
and are committed to ensuring Assistant users have access to the Radio of their
choice.We are investing in a way to offer more seamless integrations at scale.
We will let you know as soon as we have a solution available.