#Historygooglecom voice audio activity update#

You can also visit to manually delete your audio recordings from Google Assistant, Search, and Maps or choose to have them automatically deleted on an ongoing basis as part of your Web & App Activity's auto-delete controls.

You can choose to delete audio recordings at any time: Google will regularly delete audio recordings saved by this setting when they aren't needed to develop our products and technologies.

#Historygooglecom voice audio activity update#

No impact to your previously saved audio data: This update does not affect any of your audio data previously saved to your Google Account.This updated setting does not apply to other Google services or to audio data saved on your device. The audio recordings setting, when enabled, will save audio from your interactions with Google Assistant, Search, and Maps, which may be reviewed to help improve how our products understand speech. Simple controls for Google Assistant and other apps: The updated audio recordings setting is part of your Web & App Activity, which allows you to save activity like your searches to your Google Account.Visit your Google Account to review and enable the audio recordings setting if you choose.Īt a glance, here's what this update means for you: To keep you in control of your audio recordings setting, we've turned it off for you until you are able to review the updated information. Saved audio recordings help improve our audio recognition technologies, so products like Google Assistant can understand language even better in the future. The updated setting allows Google to securely save audio recordings in your Google Account. We recently updated the setting for voice and audio recordings in your Google Account and included more detail about how we use audio recordings to improve the Google products and technologies you use.

We didn't know that Google had been using humans in its process until the practice was reported on by Belgium's VRT last July when it was able to obtain thousands of samples that contained anything from mundane requests for restaurants to very personal location data and, in some cases, private conversations and activities triggered by the user's device falsely detecting the hot phrase 'Hey Google,' or 'OK Google.' The company took humans off of reviews in light of the report and promised to keep them off until it was able to 're-confirm' users' voice and activity settings - that's basically what is happening with this notification right now.

The company does not collect clips of voice recordings made to other Google services nor of locally-recorded audio. The data is also used to help users' devices better recognize their voice so that it can pick up 'OK Google' Voice Match requests - this data is tied to the account. The company is also clarifying how it uses the audio it collects, saying that it uses the raw data, unlinked to users' accounts, to train new artificial intelligence voice recognition models and assigns human reviewers to transcribe and annotate the clips to aid model training.