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home-assistant/intents

Intents for Home Assistant

This repository contains training data for Home Assistant's local voice control.

Repository layout:

  • languages.yaml
    • Supported languages and their language leader.
  • intents.yaml
    • Supported intents
  • sentences/<language>
    • Intent matching sentences in YAML files for <language> with the name <domain>_<intent>.yaml.
    • File format
  • responses/<language>
    • YAML files for <language> with responses for intents.
    • File format
  • tests/<language>
    • YAML files for <language> with test sentences and corresponding intents.
    • File format

See the documentation for more information.

Development

The easiest way to start contributing is by using devcontainers. The repository is configured for devcontainer support. Please, check how you can use devcontainers with your favourite IDE.

Run tests

Validate that the data is correctly formatted:

python3 -m script.intentfest validate --language nl

Run the tests. This will parse the sentences and verifies them with the test sentences.

pytest tests --language nl -k fan_HassTurnOn

Leave off --language to test all languages. Leave off -k to test all files. Add -n auto to use test parallelization.

Test parsing sentences

You can try parsing sentences for a specific language with:

python3 -m script.intentfest parse --language en --sentence 'turn on the lights in the kitchen'

This will print a line of JSON for each --sentence:

{
  "text": "turn on the lights in the kitchen",
  "match": true,
  "intent": "HassTurnOn",
  "slots": {
    "area": "kitchen",
    "domain": "light"
  }
}

Test sampling sentences

You can sample the possible sentences for a specific language with:

python3 -m script.intentfest sample --language en -n 1

This will print a line of JSON for each possible sentence:

python3 -m script.intentfest sample --language en -n 1
{"intent": "HassTurnOff", "text": "turn off all the fan in the kitchen"}
{"intent": "HassTurnOn", "text": "turn on the light in the kitchen"}
{"intent": "HassCloseCover", "text": "close the bedroom lamp"}
{"intent": "HassClimateSetTemperature", "text": "set the temp to 0 degrees celsius"}
{"intent": "HassLightSet", "text": "set the bedroom lamp brightness to 0 percent"}
{"intent": "HassOpenCover", "text": "open the bedroom lamp"}
{"intent": "HassClimateGetTemperature", "text": "what's the temp "}

You can filter for specific intents by adding --intents HassTurnOn HassTurnOff.

Leave off -n to generate all possible sentences.

Test sampling template

To quickly test a sentence template, use:

python3 -m script.intentfest sample_template <template>

For example:

python3 -m script.intentfest sample_template 'open [the] door'
open the door
open door

You can add lists, ranges, and expansion rules as well:

python3 -m script.intentfest sample_template 'set color to <color> and brightness to {brightness}' --values color red green --range brightness 1 2 --rule color '[the] {color}'

Generate LLM prompt to help with translations

If you start to translate a new intent, you can generate a prompt to paste into ChatGPT or another LLM to help with translations

Example to generate a prompt to translate the HassListAddItem intent to Italian:

python3 -m script.intentfest llm_template it HassListAddItem

Add new language

python3 -m script.intentfest add_language <language code> <language name>

<language code> should be something like en or pl according to ISO 639.

Language name should be the name of the language in its own language.