How to listen to everything that Alexa Assistant recorded in your home

If you have a Amazon Alexa Voice Assistant in your home, and you’re worried about what it’s recording in your home, you can easily check it.

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Amazon made all the latest helper entries available for listening in the application Alexa for iOS and Android, writes USA Today.

Company Amazon claims column Echothat are part of the assistant, listen to and record sounds in the house only after their owner activates them, usually the word “Alex” is used for this. But there were several cases when an assistant independently made decisions about recording and even sending audio files that worried many owners of this device.

To find the records that your made Alexaopen the application that controls it in the smartphone and go to the menu on the left; there select “Settings” (Settings) and scroll down to “History” (History). There you can see and reproduce all the phrases that you have said and recorded by the assistant, as well as delete them.

Keep in mind that there can be a lot of records, especially if you are actively using Alexa for several months and did not clean the history. Most of them will be everyday commands to your assistant, but there may be surprises, because the recording could start after you accidentally inserted the word "Alex" into your conversation, or the device "heard" that you said that particular word.

In the application, you can find information about how many times you have asked an assistant to include certain radio stations, song titles or podcasts that he played; your requests to increase or decrease the volume, “stop” the playback of the song, requests for the current time, as well as various phrases that were heard after intentionally or accidentally pronouncing the word Alexa.

Recorded conversations, not commands, will be titled “Text unavailable” (text not available), audio of all command phrases in the application will be entitled with these command words.

Recall that in May 2018, the story of the user received wide publicity Alexa from Portland (OR): according to her, voice assistant recorded her conversation with her husband without their knowledgeand then sent the audio file of one of her husband's employees in Seattle.

Amazon confirmed the error in the voice assistant and explained that several almost incredible coincidences had led to it.

The assistant activated when he heard a word similar to “Alex” in the conversation. Further, the device understood some phrase as a request to send a message.

“At that moment, Alex said aloud the phrase:“ To whom? ”. At that moment, the phrase said in the conversation was interpreted as a name in the contact list. Then Alex asked out loud: "[contact name], right?". Then Alex interpreted one of the words of the conversation as “correct”, - explained in Amazon.

The company acknowledged that such a coincidence of events and words is unlikely, but still, as it turned out, it is possible, and assured that they are working to reduce the likelihood of such errors to a minimum.

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