Amazon's Echo will send all voice recordings to the cloud

Amazon’s Echo will send all voice recordings to the cloud, starting March 28
Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa requests locally, which means all of their voice recordings will be sent to the
Amazon to kill Echo's local voice processing feature in favor of Voice ID
If you own an Echo smart speaker, it will soon lose a key privacy feature — and be replaced with cloud processing of all voice commands.
Amazon is ending the option to not send Echo voice recordings to the cloud
Amazon is discontinuing a feature that allowed users of some of its Echo smart speakers to choose not to send their voice recordings to the cloud. According to an email the company sent to users that was posted on Reddit, it will disable the feature that allowed select Echos to process Alexa requests locally on the device on March 28th, 2025.
Amazon is getting rid of the option for Echo devices to process Alexa requests locally
Amazon Echo models that were previously able to process Alexa requests locally will no longer do so, instead sending those voice recordings to the cloud. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the change to The Verge after a Reddit user posted a PSA about it on Friday,
Recordings of requests to Alexa will soon go to Amazon cloud
All voice recordings of commands or queries given to Amazon voice assistant Alexa on the company’s Echo devices will go to the Amazon cloud starting March 28.
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
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