ovos-skill-wolfie

Wolfram Alpha skill for OpenVoiceOS. Adds a voice interface on top of ovos-wolfram-alpha-plugin, which handles all Wolfram Alpha queries.

Supports three answer modes:

• Explicit intent — handles utterances that target Wolfram Alpha directly (e.g. "ask the wolf what is the speed of light"). These always go to this skill.
• Common Query — handles general knowledge questions (e.g. "how tall is Mount Everest?") via the OVOS Common Query pipeline. The pipeline asks all registered knowledge skills and picks the best answer.
• Fallback — if no other skill or pipeline handler answers, Wolfram Alpha gets a last shot before the "I don't understand" response.

Installation

pip install ovos-skill-wolfie

An API key is required. Configure it in the skill settings:

{
  "appid": "YOUR-WOLFRAM-API-KEY"
}

Explicit intent utterances

These always route to this skill because they name Wolfram or "the wolf" explicitly:

• "Ask the wolf what is the speed of light"
• "Ask Wolfram Alpha about the population of Japan"
• "Search Wolfram for the boiling point of ethanol"
• "What does Wolfram say about the Eiffel Tower?"

Common Query utterances

These go through the pipeline — Wolfram answers if it wins:

• "How tall is Mount Everest?"
• "What's 18 times 4?"
• "How many inches in a meter?"
• "When was The Rocky Horror Picture Show released?"
• "What is Madonna's real name?"

Common Query pipeline

When the Common Query pipeline plugin is active, this skill competes against other knowledge skills (e.g. Wikipedia, WordNet) to answer general questions. The pipeline selects the response with the highest confidence score.

Fallback

This skill also registers as a fallback handler at priority 91. If no intent or pipeline handler answers an utterance, Wolfram Alpha gets a last chance to respond before OVOS speaks "I don't know".

License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.