Most smart speakers are confined to a wall outlet for power. One thing that has been inconvenient with my Amazon Echo is moving it around. Or if a power outage happened overnight and the power came back on in my sleep, Alexa would wake me up with a spontaneous "Hello." Amazon plans to move away from the need for constant power from an outlet [Source: Reuters]. A special chip would be used for lower power consumption. I could see this become useful for Alexa. However, I don't see something like HomePod needing this, because "Hey, Siri" works on so many portable devices like iPhone.
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