2020
Improving Device Directedness Classification of Utterances With Semantic Lexical Features
Kellen Gillespie, Ioannis C. Konstantakopoulos, Xingzhi Guo, Vishal Thanvantri Vasudevan, Abhinav Sethy
ICASSP 2020accepted
User interactions with personal assistants like Alexa, Google Home and Siri are typically initiated by a wake term or wake-word. Several personal assistants feature "follow-up" modes that allow users to make additional interactions without the need of a wakeword. For the system to only respond when…