Amazon’s smart speakers have been called Echo since the first one launched in 2014. Every subsequent smart speaker and ...

CNET reported a few weeks ago that Amazon is preparing to remove a key privacy setting in its smart home devices. Today it ...

Alexa users also have a setting called “Don’t save recordings”, which, if enabled, deletes cloud recordings once they’re ...

An opt-in Alexa feature called "Do Not Send Voice Records" stops requests from being sent to the company. It will soon be ...

Some Echo devices have a feature that allows you to block voice recordings from being sent to the cloud, but Amazon is ...

Amazon will stop on-device processing of any Alexa request. All of your private Alexa requests will run through Amazon's ...

Alexa Plus won’t support “certain older generation Echo devices ... Panos Panay and the Amazon Devices & Services team on February 26th. However, the blue swirly logo behind the words ...

Amazon has informed Echo users that they can no longer process Alexa requests locally. Voice recordings are stored in the ...

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 ...

If you don't allow your voice recordings to be sent to Amazon's cloud, voice ID won't work. Sharing your requests will be necessary if you want to use Alexa and your Echo as fully as possible ...