Amazon's Echo will send all voice recordings to the cloud

Amazon’s Echo will send all voice recordings to the cloud, starting March 28
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
Amazon to kill Echo's local voice processing feature in favor of Voice ID
If you own an Echo smart speaker, it will soon lose a key privacy feature — and be replaced with cloud processing of all voice commands.
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazon’s cloud.
Amazon is ending the option to not send Echo voice recordings to the cloud
The ‘Do not send voice recordings’ feature, which was limited to three Echo devices, will go away on March 28th.
Amazon to Collect All Echo Voice Recordings, With No Option for Local Processing
Amazon has stated that it will, rather forcefully, collect all Echo voice recordings and that no requests will be processed locally moving forward. This
Recordings of requests to Alexa will soon go to Amazon cloud
All voice recordings of commands or queries given to Amazon voice assistant Alexa on the company’s Echo devices will go to the Amazon cloud starting March 28.
Amazon announces changes to Echo voice recording storage
Amazon has officially announced that it will disable a feature that enabled users of some of its Echo smart speakers to choose not to send their voice recordings to the cloud. According to an email, the company on Saturday,
Amazon's Echo devices will send all voice recordings to cloud from March 28
The move is seen as connected to the launch of its generative AI-powered Alexa Plus, which is slated to be released later this month
Amazon is getting rid of the option for Echo devices to process Alexa requests locally
Amazon Echo models that were previously able to process Alexa requests locally will no longer do so, instead sending those voice recordings to the cloud. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the change to The Verge after a Reddit user posted a PSA about it on Friday,
You can no longer stop Alexa from sending voice recordings to Amazon
Some Echo devices have a feature that allows you to block voice recordings from being sent to the cloud, but Amazon is killing it.
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