Alexa is the assistant that we can find on all Amazon devices, an assistant that we have at our disposal through its corresponding application, an application that will receive a new function in the coming days that many will be grateful.
According to the guys at TechCruch, the Alexa app will add a new hands-free function, a function that will prevent us from pressing the blue button of the application, located at the bottom, to be able to interact through voice commands with the Amazon assistant.
Once the application is updated, and we run the application for the first time, it will ask us if we want to activate the hands-free function, a function that we can deactivate later through the configuration options of the application itself.
This new feature it is only available when we run the Alexa app, so we cannot interact directly with it without the application being open. This small problem has a simple solution, inviting Siri to open the Alexa application and thus, without having to touch the iPhone at any time, being able to manage the home automation of our home, make shopping lists, play songs ...
This update, will be released in a few days for both iOS and Android and will be available in all countries where Amazon markets its devices.
Expanding the ecosystem
A couple of weeks ago, Amazon launched the Amazon Echo Auto in Spain, a small device that we have already analyzed in Actualidad iPhone and that take the Amazon assistant to our vehicle, a device that only makes sense in those vehicles where CarPlay and Android Auto are not available and that is by no means an alternative to both systems.
