You need the Alexa app to get the most out of it, including enabling hands-free mode.

The hands-free mode enables the Alexa wake-up word too

I love this speaker, I do not know why I did not buy it before, it is amazing, you have everything you like from Alexa but now are you able to move with it, the hands free mode is amazing too, the qualify of the sound is excellent and you move and the sound goes with you, the bass is also

The hands free mode makes it like any other echo device too