The Amazon Tap is a Bluetooth speaker that Amazon released back in March of last year, also integrating the company's voice-assistant named Alexa. Up until now, you had to press the physical button on the Amazon Tap speaker to bark a command to Alexa. Given that the Tap runs on a battery, its ability to wake up with the "Alexa" trigger word was not available. A firmware is coming to the Amazon Tap which will allow the user to enable a "Hands-free" feature that would allow users to call out Amazon's wake up word to use it just as the Echo was intended: hands-free. The update will also...
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