--- title: "New Features: Voice, Spam Protection & Bot Duplication" canonical_url: "https://chatthing.ai/blog/new-in-chat-thing-dictation-spoken-responses-spam-protection-bot-duplication-and-more" last_updated: "2026-09-12T10:29:02.197Z" meta: description: "Announcing new Chat Thing features: Add voice dictation and spoken responses to your bot, enable Cloudflare spam protection, duplicate bots, and more." "og:description": "Announcing new Chat Thing features: Add voice dictation and spoken responses to your bot, enable Cloudflare spam protection, duplicate bots, and more." "og:title": "New in Chat Thing: Dictation, Spoken Responses, Spam Protection, Bot Duplication & More! - Blog - Chat Thing" "twitter:description": "Announcing new Chat Thing features: Add voice dictation and spoken responses to your bot, enable Cloudflare spam protection, duplicate bots, and more." "twitter:title": "New in Chat Thing: Dictation, Spoken Responses, Spam Protection, Bot Duplication & More! - Blog - Chat Thing" --- [← Back to blog](https://chatthing.ai/blog)**Changelog**# **New in Chat Thing: Dictation, Spoken Responses, Spam Protection, Bot Duplication & More!** ![Zef](https://res.cloudinary.com/djyjvrw5u/image/upload/v1710941716/IMG_2278_d3b5e4fa69.jpg) Zef 31 Jul 2025 --- ![New in Chat Thing: Dictation, Spoken Responses, Spam Protection, Bot Duplication & More!](https://res.cloudinary.com/djyjvrw5u/image/upload/v1753970223/Audio_and_spam_protection_3d99f3f000.png) --- We've been hard at work shipping some highly-requested features to help you build even better AI agents. Here’s a look at what’s new: ### 🗣️ Dictation & Spoken Responses Frankly, we're a little embarrassed this one took so long, but we're thrilled to finally release Dictation and Spoken Responses for the web channel! Your users can now interact with your bots using just their voice for a more natural and accessible experience. And this is just the beginning—soon, you’ll be able to customise the voice to perfectly match your brand. Learn how to enable it in the [Web Channel Documentation](https://chatthing.ai/docs/web-channel#dictation-and-spoken-responses). ![Xnapper-2025-07-30-20.00.42.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/djyjvrw5u/image/upload/v1753902103/Xnapper_2025_07_30_20_00_42_d3a9b00e2d.png) ### 🛡️ Spam Protection Protect your public-facing bots from abuse with our new Spam Protection feature. Powered by Cloudflare Turnstile, it provides a seamless, privacy-preserving way to block automated spam without forcing your users to solve annoying CAPTCHAs. You can activate it from your web channel settings. Check out the [Spam Protection Documentation](https://chatthing.ai/docs/web-channel#spam-protection) to get started. ![Cloudflare turnstile spam protection](https://res.cloudinary.com/djyjvrw5u/image/upload/v1753965261/Cloudflare_turnstile_spam_protection_f03ff305b8.png) ### 💬 "Talk to a human" Power-up Update We've made our "Talk to a human" power-up more flexible. You can now specify exactly which email address you want escalations to be forwarded to, directly within the power-up settings. Find out more in the [ Talk to a human Docs](https://chatthing.ai/docs/talk-to-a-human). ### ✨ Duplicate your Bots Speed up your workflow with bot duplication! You can now create a copy of any existing bot, with full control to choose what you want to include—from data sources and prompts to channel settings and power-ups. Learn how in the [Duplicating Bots Documentation](https://chatthing.ai/docs/duplicating-bots). ### Advanced: New Dynamic Prompt Tags For our advanced users, you can now include two new replacement tags in your prompts that will be replaced dynamically at runtime: and . This allows for more advanced logging, tracking, and multi-agent workflows. --- We can’t wait to see what you think of these updates, happy agent building ### **Related articles ** [![GLM 5.3 Flash lands in Chat Thing, plus SupportBench and link controls](https://res.cloudinary.com/djyjvrw5u/image/upload/v1787909974/changelog_b_v2_zai_34464d03cf.png)](https://chatthing.ai/blog/glm-5-3-flash-supportbench-and-link-controls) [

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