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Parsing Utterances

Note: The links to the various NeonSkill methods in this documentation point to the mycroft-core documentation. There is no material difference between them for the methods referenced and, since there is not publicly available neon_core documentation, we will reference mycroft-core instead.

Extracting data

Datetime

Extracts date and time information from a sentence.

See extract_datetime()

Duration

Convert an english phrase into a number of seconds.

See extract_duration()

Numbers

extract_number() takes in a string and extracts a single number.

extract_numbers() takes in a string and extracts a list of numbers.

Matching

Vocab Matching

voc_match() determines if the given utterance contains the vocabulary provided.

Fuzzy Matching

fuzzy_match() performs a ‘fuzzy’ comparison between two strings.

Match One

match_one() finds the best match from a list or dictionary given an input.