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This is David Ward from Across the Pond, just bringing you a quick tip about privacy and voice identification today. Now, I'm not too sure this is always available in Europe or, you know, in the United Kingdom, but this is a pretty cool feature dealing with privacy settings connected with the retention of your voice recordings on the A-Lady and also your ability to use one human curation of maybe the accuracy of some of your recordings. But in order to enable this feature, you first need to enable voice ID. So this is how you do that.
First, Alexa, learn my voice. Once I learn your voice, I'll be able to call you by name, tell you apart from others who use the Echo devices you speak to, and personalize your experience. First, I'll need your name. I found a few in this account.
Say yes if you hear yours. Is this John? No. Is this David?
Yes. As part of learning your voice, I'll ask you to say four phrases to create a voice ID. Your voice ID will be stored in the cloud until you delete it in the app. Now you'll just need to repeat after me.
Get ready. We're about to begin. First up, say, Alexa, what's the temperature outside? Alexa, what's the temperature outside?
Great. Now say, Alexa, play music. Alexa, play music. Great.
Now say, Alexa, turn off the light. Alexa, turn off the lights. And one more. Alexa, add milk to my shopping list.
Alexa, add milk to my shopping list. Okay. You're all done. David, it's great to put a name to the voice.
I've sent information about your voice ID to the Alexa app. And if you'd like to help others get recognized on these devices, remind them to say, Alexa, learn my voice. All right. Now to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Now we can enable this. We can invoke this privacy setting. Alexa, update my privacy settings. Sure.
I can help you update the settings that manage how long your voice recordings are saved and human review of those recordings. Let's get started. Currently, your voice recordings are set to save for 18 months. You can change that to save until you delete them, save for three months, or not save them at all.
Which would you like? Three months. Okay. By choosing that option, your voice recordings older than three months will be deleted and cannot be retrieved.
Do you still want me to update that setting? Yes. Okay. It's updated to three months.
Now, moving to the next setting. Currently, human review of your voice recordings is turned on. Only a small fraction of all voice recordings go through human review. Would you like to turn it off?
No. Okay. Human review of your voice recordings will remain turned on. To manage other privacy settings, tap the link I sent to the Alexa app.
You can also go to your Amazon account and find privacy settings under content and devices. Okay. All right. So there you go.
Pretty cool little decision tree with privacy settings. Of course, you have to enable that voice ID first. It would have prompted me to do that if I'd asked that first. Anyway, so there's a little nugget from you from David Ward here at the New Vision program at Goodwill across the pond.
And if you want to find out more about me, go to goodwillvalleys.com slash newvision, all lowercase and no spaces. We thank you for listening. Feedback, comments, demos. The dot-to-dot podcast at gmail.com.
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