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Google and Amazon may be bringing voice calls to their connected speakers that's according to a report in the Wall Street Journal saying the tech giant's are working on the feature for echo and home Google's got a bit more experience than Amazon with voice calls because of services like Google Voice and project fire echo users can already send text messages using the send message skill if they are AT&T subscribers so what could making a phone call on a home or echo sound like this is totally simulated by the way Alexa call the pizza shop calling a pizza shop hi pizza shop how can I help you hey I'd like to order three extra large pepperoni pizzas double the cheese and three times the meat both the home and the echo keep voice recordings on file four things you asked and it is important to note that you can delete them the Wall Street Journal reports cited a source saying Amazon wouldn't record conversations but it would keep the length of calls and numbers dialed just like most cell phones do because if they did record imagine what could happen Alexa what's on my to-do list you ordered those large meat monster pizzas maybe you should go to the gym and we don't know what it would sound like for the caller on the other end if you've ever listened back to the voice recordings you'll know that they aren't exactly high fidelity the report says voice calling features could arrive as soon as this year but privacy telecom regulations and emergency service access are all some of the current holdups so don't cut your landline just yet for more tech news visit CNET calm