Published 15:19 IST, February 20th 2020

Alexa is recording your conversations, here's how you can listen and delete them

Amazon's Alexa works by voice command and sometimes it picks up conversations and records them, however, one can now delete any unexpected recordings.

Reported by: Bhavya Sukheja
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Amazon's Alexa works by voice command and sometimes it picks up conversations and records m, however, one can w delete any unexpected recordings. Alexa is a smart assistant and it works on 'wake words' which means that sometimes it can pick up false ones when one is t even interacting with device. news of voice recordings came after a former Amazon employee told an international media outlet that he always turns his Alexa off to stop strangers from listening in on his conversations. 

However, an Amazon spokesperson reportedly said that voice recording help improves Alexa as y manually review and antate a small fraction of one per cent of Alexa requests. He furr specified that access to data antation tools is only granted to a limited number of employees who require m to improve service and antation process also does t associate voice recordings with any customer identifiable information. Furrmore, he clarified that customers can even opt-out of having ir voice recordings included in fraction of one per cent of voice recording that gets reviewed. 

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How to find and delete voice recordings

To find voice recordings one can easily, 

  • Open Alexa app on smartphone or tablet. 
  • Tap into menu bar on left-hand side and n tap Settings.
  • Next, tap Alexa Privacy, and n go into Review Voice History.

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  • On or hand, to delete audio recordings, individually tap on empty boxes next to each recording to 'tick' m.
  • n go to top of list and press 'Delete Selected Recordings' to delete those individual files.
  • One can also delete all voice recordings by selecting a date range and pressing 'Delete All Recordings'. 

user also has option of t having ir voice recorded ever and all one has to do it to go to 'Alexa Privacy' on app and 'Man How Your Data improves Alexa', which will n show you an explanation of policy. user can n uncheck box called 'Help Improve Amazon Services and Develop New Features' so that ne of recordings can be sent off. 

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15:19 IST, February 20th 2020