Amazon is turning off the ability to process voice requests locally. It's a seemingly major privacy pivot and one that some Alexa users might not appreciate. However, this change affects exactly ...

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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 ...

The company's cloud-based voice service Alexa currently offers an opt-in feature called "Do Not Send Voice Recordings." It stops audio requests from being sent to the company. Starting March 28 ...

Kyle Barr / Gizmodo Amazon’s AI-enhanced Alexa assistant is going to need all your voice recordings, and there’s nothing you can do about it. An email sent to Alexa users notes the online ...

In a March 15 email, Amazon announced its Echo devices will no longer support local processing for Alexa requests, and will stop offering “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” as an option.

Amazon just held an event in New York City to reveal the long-awaited revamp of its Alexa chatbot ... There’s voice activation with Echo devices, of course, but the company has also built ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Amazon is killing a feature that lets users of some Echo devices stop Alexa from ...

Owners of the Amazon Echo have long had the option to process requests locally. Starting March 28, Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa voice recordings locally ...

Alexa+ is an upgrade from the standard Alexa voice assistant, now powered by generative AI. The updated assistant comes with quite a few new features, but the main pull of Alexa+ is that ...