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Built-in Intents

Currently, built-in intents are only available in English.

Common Intents

IntentMeaningSample utterances
wit$cancel
Cancels an action or selection
“Cancel that”
 
 
“I don’t want that”
wit$confirmation
Confirms or agrees with information
“That’s right”
 
 
“I agree”
wit$go_back
Indicates an action or individual should go back or reverse
“Go back”
 
 
“Take me back”
wit$go_forward
Indicates that an action or individual should move forward
“Go forward”
 
 
“Move ahead”
wit$negation
Denies or disagrees with information
“That’s wrong”
 
 
“Nope”
wit$nevermind
Discards the voice activation.
“Nevermind”
wit$open_resource
Opens an app
“Open my app”
wit$repeat_response
The statement was unclear; please repeat the response
“I didn’t understand that”
 
 
“Say that again”
wit$select_item
Indicates a selection
“The first item”
 
 
“Select ‘all of the above’”
wit$share
Shares this with another individual
“Send this to George”
 
 
“Share this with the group”

Alarms and Timer Intents

IntentMeaningSample utterances
wit$add_time_timer
Adds time to a timer.
“Add 5 minutes to the time”
 
 
“Give me 10 more minutes”
wit$create_alarm
Sets an alarm.
“Set an alarm for 7am tomorrow morning”
 
 
“I want a 9:45 pm alarm”
wit$create_timer
Creates a new timer.
“Set a timer for 10 minutes”
 
 
“I need a 15 minute count-down”
wit$delete_alarm
Deletes an alarm.
“Delete the alarm”
 
 
“Cancel the 9am alarm”
wit$delete_timer
Deletes the timer.
“Delete the timer”
 
 
“Get rid of this timer”
wit$get_alarms
Gets the alarms currently set.
“What alarms do I have?”
 
 
“Do I have an alarm set?”
wit$get_timer
Asks how much time is left on a timer.
“Show me the timer”
 
 
“How long do I have left?”
wit$pause_timer
Pauses the timer.
“Pause the timer”
 
 
“Pause”
wit$resume_timer
Resumes the timer.
“Resume the timer”
 
 
“Start it again”
wit$silence_alarm
Stops the currently set alarm.
“Stop the alarm”
 
 
“Turn it off”
wit$snooze_alarm
Snoozes an alarm.
“Snooze”
 
 
“Pause the alarm”
wit$subtract_time_timer
Reduces time from the timer.
“Subtract 5 minutes from the timer”
 
 
“Take an hour off the timer”

Calendar and Weather Intents

IntentMeaningSample utterances
wit$check_weather_condition
Asks about the current weather.
“Is it raining?”
 
 
“What’s the weather like?”
wit$get_date
Returns the current date.
“What’s the date?”
 
 
“What day is it?”
wit$get_sunrise
Returns the time of the sunrise.
“When’s sunrise?”
 
 
“What time does dawn happen?”
wit$get_sunset
Returns the time of the sunset.
“When’s the sunset today?”
 
 
“What time does the sun go down?”
wit$get_temperature
Asks for the current temperature.
“What is the temperature today?”
 
 
“How hot is it?”
wit$get_time
Asks for the current time.
“What’s the time?”
 
 
“What time is it?”
wit$get_time_until_date
Asks how many days till a certain date.
“How many days until Christmas?”
 
 
“How long until payday?”
wit$get_weather
Asks for the current weather.
“What’s the weather like today?”
 
 
“What’s it like outside?”

Media Intents

IntentMeaningSample utterances
wit$add_to_playlist
Adds a song to a playlist.
“Add this song to my playlist”
 
 
“Play this song on my list”
wit$create_playlist
Creates a new playlist and adds the current song.
“Create a new playlist”
 
 
“Add this song to a new playlist”
wit$decrease_volume
Decreases the volume of the selected media.
“Turn it down”
 
 
“Lower the volume”
wit$delete_playlist
Deletes the current playlist.
“Delete this playlist”
 
 
“Get rid of this list”
wit$fast_forward_track
Fast forwards in the song.
“Fast forward this song”
 
 
“Skip to later in this song”
wit$get_track_info
Gets information about the current song.
“What’s the name of this song?”
 
 
“Who sings this?”
wit$increase_volume
Increases the volume of the selected media.
“Make the podcast louder”
 
 
“Turn it up”
wit$pause
Pauses the media (song, video, podcast).
“Pause”
wit$play
Plays the media (song, video, podcast).
“Start playing”
wit$play_podcast
Plays the particular podcast.
“Play this podcast”
 
 
“Start the first episode”
wit$previous_track
Replays the previous song.
“Play the last song”
 
 
“Give me that one again”
wit$remove_from_playlist
Deletes a song from the playlist.
“Remove this song”
 
 
“I don’t want to hear this again”
wit$replay_track
Repeats the current song.
“Replay this song”
 
 
“Give me that one again”
wit$resume
Resumes the media (song, video, podcast).
“Please resume”
`wit$rewind_track
Rewinds the current song by 10 seconds.
“Rewind the song”
 
 
“Back that up”
wit$shuffle_playlist
Plays the playlist in random order.
“Shuffle the playlist”
 
 
“Play these songs randomly”
wit$skip_track
Skips the song currently playing.
“Skip this song”
 
 
“Next song, please”
wit$stop
Stops the media (song, video, podcast).
“Please stop”
wit$unshuffle_playlist
Plays the playlist according to the playlist order.
“Stop the shuffle”
 
 
“Play the songs in order”

Music Intents

IntentMeaningSample utterances
wit$dislike_music
Lets the music service know the user doesn’t like the current song.
“I don’t like this song”
 
 
“This song sucks”
wit$like_music
Lets the music service know the user likes a song and it’ll get saved into the favorites.
“I like this song”
 
 
“This song is great”
wit$loop_music
Plays the song repeatedly.
“Repeat this song”
 
 
“Play this over again”
wit$pause_music
Pauses the song current playing.
“Pause this song”
wit$play_music
Plays music or media content.
“Play Christmas music”
 
 
“Give me some blues”
wit$resume_music
Resumes a song that was paused.
“Resume the song”
 
 
“Start it again”
wit$stop_music
Stops the music or media content that’s currently playing.
“Stop the music”
 
 
“Stop the video”
wit$unloop_music
Stops repeating a song.
“Stop the loop on this song”
 
 
“Stop repeating”
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