Excerpts from Wikipedia [1]: "In the default mode the device continuously listens to all speech, monitoring for the wake word to be spoken." "... Echo only st

Excerpts from Wikipedia [1]: "In the default mode the device continuously listens to all speech, monitoring for the wake word to be spoken." "... Echo only streams recordings from the user's home when the 'wake word' activates the device." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Echo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Echo