In this paper, we extend our previous work on the detection of system-directed speech utterances. This type of binary classification can be used by virtual assistants to create a more natural and fluid interaction between the system and the user. We explore two methods that both improve the Equal-Error-Rate (EER) performance of the previous model. The first exploits the supplementary information independently captured by ASR models through integrating ASR decoder-based features as additional inputs to the final classification stage of the model. This relatively improves EER performance by 13%. The second proposed method further integrates word embeddings into the architecture and, when combined with the first method, achieves a significant EER performance improvement of 48%, relative to that of the baseline.
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