Manage audio recordings in your Web & App Activity

Yous tin cull whether y'all desire Google to save an sound recording to your Google Account when you lot collaborate with Google Search, Assistant, and Maps. Your sound tin can help Google develop and improve its audio recognition technologies and the Google services that use them.

The audio recordings setting is off unless you cull to turn it on.

Of import: Based on other settings, sound recordings may be saved in other places.

How Google Protects Your Privacy if Yous Choose to Salve Audio Data

Plough sound recordings on or off

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open up your device's Settings appand then Google and then Manage your Google Account.

  2. At the top, tap Data & privacy.
  3. Under "History settings," tap Web & App Activity.
  4. Check or uncheck the box next to "Include audio recordings" to turn the setting on or off.

When the audio recordings setting is off, voice inputs from interactions with Google Search, Assistant, and Maps won't be saved to your Google Business relationship, even if you're signed in. If you turn the sound recordings setting off, previously saved audio is not deleted. Y'all tin delete your sound recordings at any time.

Find or delete your audio recordings

Detect your sound recordings

  1. On your Android telephone or tablet, open your device's Settings appand then Google and then Manage your Google Account.

  2. At the top, tap Information & privacy.
  3. Nether "History settings," tap Web & App ActionAnd then Manage activity. On this page, y'all can:

If you get the "Transcript not bachelor" message, there may have been also much background racket during that activity.

Tip:To add more security, you lot can crave an actress verification footstep to view your full history.

Delete audio recordings from your Spider web & App Activity

Important: Based on other settings, audio recordings may be saved in other places.

Delete one item at a fourth dimension

  1. On your Android telephone or tablet, open your device'due south Settings appand then Google and then Manage your Google Account.

  2. At the top, tap Information & privacy.
  3. Under "History settings," tap Web & App ActivityAnd then Manage activeness. On this page, you find a listing of your past action. Items with the audio icon Speak include a recording.
  4. Next to the detail you desire to delete, tap DeleteAnd thenDelete.

Delete all items at once

Important: These steps volition delete all of your Web & App Activity items, non just items that include a recording.

  1. On your Android telephone or tablet, open your device's Settings appand then Google and then Manage your Google Account.

  2. At the peak, tap Data & privacy.
  3. Under "History settings," tap Web & App ActivityAnd then Manage activity. On this page, you detect a list of your past action. Items with the audio icon Speak include a recording.
  4. Above your activeness, tap Delete.
  5. SelectAll time.
  6. Follow the instructions to delete your action.

Delete your audio recordings automatically

Important: These steps turn on the auto-delete option for all of your Spider web & App Activity items, not just items that include an audio recording.

  1. On your Android telephone or tablet, open your device'southward Settings appand then Google and then Manage your Google Account.

  2. At the peak, tapData & privacy.
  3. Under "History settings," tap Web & App Activity And thenManage activity. On this page, you detect a list of your past activity. Items with the sound icon Speak include a recording.
  4. In a higher place your activity, in the search bar, selectMore MoreAnd thenProceed activity for.
  5. Tap the button for how long you want to keep your activeness And thenNext And then Confirm.

Google may delete audio sooner than the timeframe y'all choose, once information technology'due south no longer needed for developing and improving Google's sound recognition technologies and the services that use them. For case, less sound may be needed for some languages over time.

Other places audio recordings may exist saved

The audio recordings setting does not bear on other Google services (like Google Phonation or YouTube) that you may use to save sound data.

Depending on other device settings, audio recordings may still be saved on your device. For case, if you plow on Voice Match, audio recordings may be saved on your device to help recognize your voice.

On-device sound can be used to improve audio recognition technologies on the device. Those improvements tin can be sent to Google, without sound recordings, to help develop and amend sound recognition technologies and the Google services that use them, for example, when the Amend Gboard setting is on, Gboard can improve recognition for everyone without sending what you say to the server. Learn how Gboard gets ameliorate.

How audio recordings work

How audio recordings are saved

Google records your voice and audio, plus a few seconds before, when you use sound activations like:

  • Tapping the microphone icon.
  • Pressing the talk button on a headset.
  • Saying activation commands like "Hey Google."

Of import: Audio might be saved if your device incorrectly detects an activation. For case, this tin happen if there's a noise that sounds like "Hey Google" or an unintended transmission activation. We're constantly working to make our systems better at reducing unintended activations.

When the sound recordings setting is turned on

Your audio is saved to your Google Account only when:

  • "Include audio recordings" is checked, and,
  • You lot're signed in to your Google Account and,
  • Web & App Activity is turned on and,
  • You collaborate with Google Search, Banana, and Maps

If you lot utilize your device without an internet connection, audio may be saved in your account once y'all return online.

How audio recordings ameliorate your experience

Audio recordings are used to:

  • Develop and meliorate our audio recognition technologies and the Google services that use them, similar Google Assistant.
  • Better recognize your vox over fourth dimension. For instance, your devices that have Voice Match enabled may better recognize when you say "Hey Google."

How audio review improves our technologies

To help Google services improve sympathize what people say to them, trained reviewers analyze a small percent of machine-selected audio samples.

To analyze and better translate a sample of audio, trained reviewers listen to, transcribe, and comment the sample. For example, a sample might include audio of what someone is saying in a noisy environs or in a particular language.

We take steps to protect your privacy during the assay. For example, your audio is disassociated from your account when reviewers admission it.

Related manufactures

  • Delete your activity
  • Find & control your Web & App Activity
  • Utilise "Hey Google" vocalism searches & deportment

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