CNET How To - Stop Google from tracking your voice
CNET How To - Stop Google from tracking your voice
2015-07-17
when you ask Google now a question or
use text-to-speech to respond to someone
these recordings are saved to your
Google account while these recordings
can only be accessed by you they could
include some you know sensitive
information you don't feel comfortable
having in the cloud or maybe you just
don't want your voice on Google servers
to see and listen to all your voice
recordings head to Google tap your
portrait in the top right corner and
select the my account under the personal
info and privacy section click on
account history then scroll down to the
voice searches and command section and
select manage activity here you can play
and listen to old commands you can also
delete them by clicking the checkbox
next to the recordings and selecting the
delete option in the top right corner if
you want to delete everything at once
before you check off any boxes click the
3 a con on the top right corner select
delete options and choose to delete
recordings from today yesterday the past
week the past four weeks are all of them
all together now to be clear Google uses
these recordings to improve speech and
audio recognition but if you still want
to stop Google from storing your voice
recordings altogether click the three on
tap settings and toggle the blue switch
to off you'll be prompted to confirm
that you want to pause recording history
if so all you have to do is click the
pause button you can now speak freely to
your phone without having to worry about
recordings being saved to Google servers
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