KendoReact

What's New 2025 Q3

React Inline AI Prompt: Inline AI Assistance for Smarter Workflows

The new KendoReact Inline AI Prompt brings AI assistance directly into your app’s workflow. Users can compose prompts, view AI-generated responses, and apply custom actions inline—without breaking context. The component is fully customizable, letting you adjust the interface, layout, and commands to match your design. With built-in support for real-time streaming, accessibility, and integration with services like OpenAI or Azure OpenAI, you can deliver AI-powered experiences that feel seamless and native to React applications.

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React Speech-to-Text Button: Enable Hands-Free Input in Your React App

The KendoReact new Speech-to-Text Button lets users dictate text directly into your app, supporting 100+ languages with automatic locale detection. It taps the Web Speech API while providing a clean React interface that respects forms, localization, and accessibility out of the box. Flexible configuration options let you choose continuous dictation, quick command mode, interim results, and alternate transcriptions to fit any scenario. Appearance can be fully customized—size, icons, colors, rounded corners, and CSS—while built-in states and events provide clear feedback and easy integration with your workflow or external AI services.

Updated React Chat (Conversational UI): Create Engaging, Configurable Conversational Experiences

The revamped KendoReact Chat (Conversational UI) helps you build modern, human-to-AI or human-to-human conversational interfaces that keep users engaged and connected. With a redesigned, flexible experience, the component now supports chatbot integrations, rich messaging, and quick action menus, making interactions faster and more intuitive. You can customize message bubbles, headers, timestamps, and suggestions, while also enabling file upload configurations, media sharing, and speech-to-text input for natural, human-like conversations.

Whether you’re building a customer support chatbot, booking assistant, or interactive FAQ, the updated React Chat (Conversational UI) delivers a polished, intelligent conversational experience that feels seamless inside any app.

React Smart AI Data Grid: Interactive Data with Natural Language Prompts

The KendoReact Smart Grid helps you create experiences where end users can explore and interact with data using natural language or voice prompts. Users can type or speak queries like “show only rows where revenue is above 10,000” or “group by region and sort by date,” and the grid applies changes instantly. A dedicated AI Assistant column enables row-level analysis to generate summaries, extract insights, or perform quick transformations. You remain in control while delivering a polished, AI-powered data experience that makes data interaction faster, smarter, and more intuitive for end users.

Updated React AI Prompt: Deliver Enhanced, Flexible, and Engaging AI Experience

The revamped KendoReact AI Prompt enables users to write prompts and interact with AI-generated responses seamlessly, directly within your React app. Responses stream in real time, keeping users engaged, while integration with AI services delivers intelligent suggestions. Fully customizable buttons, inputs, and output cards let you match your app’s design, while keyboard navigation and accessibility ensure efficient and inclusive use. The AI Prompt also supports voice input via integration with the Speech-to-Text component, giving users a flexible, responsive AI experience that feels natural and tailored to their workflow.