diff --git a/crates/jarvis-app/src/main.rs b/crates/jarvis-app/src/main.rs
index e728283..9f26262 100644
--- a/crates/jarvis-app/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/jarvis-app/src/main.rs
@@ -99,8 +99,8 @@ fn main() -> Result<(), String> {
     // init intent-recognition engine
     let rt = tokio::runtime::Runtime::new().expect("Failed to create tokio runtime");
     rt.block_on(async {
-        if intent::init(COMMANDS_LIST.get().unwrap()).await.is_err() {
-            error!("Failed to initialize intent classifier");
+        if let Err(e) = intent::init(COMMANDS_LIST.get().unwrap()).await {
+            error!("Failed to initialize intent classifier: {}", e);
             app::close(1);
         }
     });
diff --git a/crates/jarvis-core/src/config.rs b/crates/jarvis-core/src/config.rs
index e1d21f3..4b88b1e 100644
--- a/crates/jarvis-core/src/config.rs
+++ b/crates/jarvis-core/src/config.rs
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ pub const VOSK_SPEECH_PARTIAL_WORDS: bool = false;
 pub const INTENT_CLASSIFIER_MIN_CONFIDENCE: f64 = 0.75;
 
 // embedding classifier
-pub const EMBEDDING_MIN_CONFIDENCE: f64 = 0.60;
+pub const EMBEDDING_MIN_CONFIDENCE: f64 = 0.70;
 
 // AUDIO PROCESSING DEFAULTS
 pub const DEFAULT_NOISE_SUPPRESSION: NoiseSuppressionBackend = NoiseSuppressionBackend::None;
diff --git a/crates/jarvis-core/src/intent.rs b/crates/jarvis-core/src/intent.rs
index 4925617..041aca1 100644
--- a/crates/jarvis-core/src/intent.rs
+++ b/crates/jarvis-core/src/intent.rs
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ use crate::{JCommandsList, commands::JCommand, config};
 use once_cell::sync::OnceCell;
 use crate::config::structs::IntentRecognitionEngine;
 
+use crate::DB;
+
 static IRE_TYPE: OnceCell<IntentRecognitionEngine> = OnceCell::new();
 
 pub async fn init(commands: &Vec<JCommandsList>) -> Result<(), String> {
@@ -15,14 +17,19 @@ pub async fn init(commands: &Vec<JCommandsList>) -> Result<(), String> {
     } // already initialized
 
     // set default ire type
-    IRE_TYPE.set(config::DEFAULT_INTENT_RECOGNITION_ENGINE).unwrap();
+    // IRE_TYPE.set(config::DEFAULT_INTENT_RECOGNITION_ENGINE).unwrap();
+
+    // store current ire type
+    IRE_TYPE
+        .set(DB.get().unwrap().read().intent_recognition_engine)
+        .unwrap();
 
     // load given recorder
     match IRE_TYPE.get().unwrap() {
         IntentRecognitionEngine::IntentClassifier => {
-            info!("Initializing IRE backend.");
+            info!("Initializing IntentClassifier IRE backend.");
             intentclassifier::init(&commands).await?;
-            info!("IRE backend initialized.");
+            info!("IntentClassifier IRE backend initialized.");
         },
         IntentRecognitionEngine::EmbeddingClassifier => {
             info!("Initializing EmbeddingClassifier IRE backend.");
diff --git a/crates/jarvis-core/src/intent/embeddingclassifier.rs b/crates/jarvis-core/src/intent/embeddingclassifier.rs
index d71fc87..a4f49c7 100644
--- a/crates/jarvis-core/src/intent/embeddingclassifier.rs
+++ b/crates/jarvis-core/src/intent/embeddingclassifier.rs
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ pub fn init(commands: &[JCommandsList]) -> Result<(), String> {
         }
     }
 
+    // info!("{}", model_dir.display());
+
     let user_model = UserDefinedEmbeddingModel {
         onnx_file: std::fs::read(model_dir.join("model.onnx"))
             .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to read model.onnx: {}", e))?,
@@ -194,6 +196,8 @@ pub fn classify(text: &str) -> Result<(String, f64), String> {
         }
     }
 
+    debug!("Embedding classify: '{}' -> '{}' ({:.2}%)", text, best_id, best_score * 100.0);
+
     Ok((best_id, best_score))
 }
 
diff --git a/resources/models/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-onnx-Q/model_optimized.onnx b/resources/models/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-onnx-Q/model.onnx
similarity index 100%
rename from resources/models/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-onnx-Q/model_optimized.onnx
rename to resources/models/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-onnx-Q/model.onnx