WolframAlfa not running.

[amunizp]

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Wolfram Alfa skill does not seem to work as described on MARK2.

To Reproduce
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1. "hey mycroft"
2. "What's 18 times 4?" returns an "I don't understand" and "How tall is Mount Everest?" returns the wikipedia article response.

Expected behavior
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1. expected wolfram alfa logo showing on screen after searching response.
2. I expect the response to be the direct answer to the multiplication or question.

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Environment (please complete the following information):

• Device type: Mark2
• OS: dinkum
• Mycroft-dinkum version: 21.2.1
• Other versions: n/a

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https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-dinkum/tree/master/skills

Looking into https://market.mycroft.ai/skills I see the following:

Please think carefully about whether you have modified anything in Mycroft's code or configuration files. If so, can you reproduce this on a clean installation of Mycroft? Many "bugs" turn out to be non-standard configuration errors.

[amunizp]

Confirmed it needs intent:
https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-dinkum/blob/master/skills/query-wolfram-alpha.mark2/vocab/en-us/WolframAlpha.voc

[krisgesling]

Hey there, thanks for raising this ticket.

There are two ways to get results from Wolfram - if you explicitly ask for wolfram it should only use that service which is what that .voc file does. The other way is to just ask a question, and then Wolfram is one of the services that gets queried.

I just tried this on a Mark II and found that a correct response is returned for:

"what is 18 * 4"

however fails on:

"what's 18 * 4"

These should both get normalized to the expanded form "what is" for processing so I presume something is going wrong at that point, which results in the bug you've identified.

[amunizp]

Just to be clear, then is the bug the that it is not understanding "what's" or that it needs to be clearer in the documentation?

[krisgesling]

That it is not understanding "What's". There is no reason someone should have to explicitly say "what is" vs "what's", and also no reason why Skill developers should need to specially account for both in their intent definitions.