Ars Technica reports that on Friday, Amazon sent an email to customers who have “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” enabled on their Echo smart speakers and displays (specifically the fourth ...

The ‘Do not send voice recordings’ feature, which was limited to three Echo devices, will go away on March 28th. by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Mar 14, 2025, 7:34 PM UTC ...

Ars Technica reports that on Friday, Amazon sent an email to customers who have “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” enabled on their Echo smart speakers and displays, stating the company would stop ...

Amazon is making a huge overhaul to its Echo devices, but it's not what the users are expecting.Starting March 28, the feature that keeps Alexa voice recordings away from Amazon's cloud will be gone.

Beginning on March 28, Amazon is ending the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” option that kept audio from being sent to Amazon's cloud and had it process locally on the device instead.

Amazon is removing an Echo privacy setting that keeps Alexa recordings from the company An opt-in Alexa feature called 'Do Not Send Voice Records' stops requests from being sent to the company.

In an email to Yahoo News, Amazon said the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” feature was only used by less than 0.03% of customers. “The Alexa experience is designed to protect our customers ...

Currently, some Echo users can opt not to send voice recordings to Amazon’s servers, instead relying on the device’s processing to interpret what is being said locally.

Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa requests locally, which means all of their voice recordings will be sent to the company’s cloud. Ars Technica reports that ...

Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa voice recordings locally, which means those recordings (with the exception of certain Alexa features like wake word detection) ...