I’ve worn Alexa-enabled glasses for two weeks. They’re driving me bananas. - The Washington Post

I’ve been living with its latest talking artificial intelligence product, called the Echo Frames, for two weeks.

They’re glasses with tiny speakers and a microphone so you can have your own private conversations with Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant everywhere you go.

After two weeks with the $180 Echo Frames, I can report that you have to really love Alexa to want to wear it on your face.

Even the first Alexa product, the Echo speaker, was an experiment that Amazon initially only sold on a waiting list.

The idea of Alexa glasses, as opposed to Alexa headphones (which Amazon also started selling last fall), is that they’re always with you.

The Echo Frames have tiny speakers pointing toward your ears, so only you are supposed to hear Alexa, phone calls or music.

(You buy regular prescription lenses for the Frames separately.).

The Frames battery has never really made it through the day — they conk out after three hours of constant music streaming at 60 percent volume?

The Frames get their Internet connection from your smartphone over Bluetooth, which sometimes flakes out, leaving Alexa to yelp that it is disconnected.

Amazon wouldn’t let me speak with a Frames product manager about the big idea.

The Frames did help with the occasional need to answer trivia or add to my shopping list on the go.

What’s really novel — and maddening — about the Frames is that Alexa can talk to you without your prompting.

Hearing things is less intrusive than having to look at another screen, but all those Frames app-alert whispers quickly got old?

Being proactive is Amazon’s next big idea for Alexa.

If you buy the Echo Frames today, you’ll mostly be helping Amazon figure out the evolution of Alexa, but really, Amazon ought to be paying you for that