ELECTRONIC ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND OPERATIONAL METHOD

A method for operating an electronic assistance device includes: outputting, at a foreground volume, a first output audio stream provided by a voice-controlled first assistance application of the electronic assistance device, the first assistance application exclusively accepting a first wake-up word; continuously detecting an ambient sound and providing the detected ambient sound as an input audio stream; recognizing a second wake-up word as the only wake-up word in a user's voice input recognized in the provided input audio stream, wherein the second wake-up word is exclusively accepted by a voice-controlled second assistance application of the assistance device; and recognizing, in the voice input a command word following the second wake-up word, the command word being accepted by the first assistance application and by the second assistance application, and controlling the first output audio stream via the recognized voice input.