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On since April 9, 2024, when you created your account
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Subsettings
Include Chrome history and activity from sites, apps, and devices that use Google services
Include voice and audio activity. Learn more
Auto-delete (Off)
Choose an auto-delete option
Manage all Web & App Activity
Help improve audio technologies
Help improve audio technologies
When you speak to Google services, Google uses its audio recognition technologies to process your audio and respond to you.
If you agree, Google will also save audio from your interactions with Google Search, Assistant, and Maps, in your Google Account on Google servers with your Web & App Activity, and use it to improve Google’s audio technologies as explained in more detail below.
How audio recordings are used to improve audio technologies
Google uses your audio to develop and improve its audio recognition technologies and the Google services that use them, like Google Assistant.
Audio review process
For some audio technology improvements, samples of audio saved when this setting is on may be analyzed by trained reviewers, who listen to, transcribe, and annotate it. This process helps services better understand what people say to them.
Voice technologies
Some of Google’s audio technologies, like Voice Match, can match similar voices, tell voices apart, or be enhanced by a unique voice. If you use Google Assistant with Voice Match and you’ve turned on this voice and audio activity setting, Google may also temporarily process a model of your voice from your saved audio to develop and improve Google’s voice technologies and Google services that use them.
You currently use Google Assistant with Voice Match
When this voice and audio activity setting is on
Audio may be saved when your device detects an activation, like saying “Hey Google” or touching the mic icon. Some devices include a few seconds before activation to catch the complete request.
Audio may be saved if your device incorrectly detects an activation. We’re constantly working to make our systems better at reducing unintended activations.
Options for controlling this saved audio
Audio saved when this setting is on will be deleted with your Web & App Activity. Google may delete audio sooner, once it's no longer needed for development and improvement. You can delete your Web & App Activity manually, choose an auto-delete option, stop saving audio, and more at activity.google.com.
About this voice and audio activity setting
When you speak to Google services, Google uses its audio recognition technologies to process your audio and respond to you. For example, if you touch the mic icon to search by voice, Google’s audio recognition technologies translate what you say into words and phrases that Search looks up in an index to give you the most relevant results.
Web & App Activity saves things you do on Google sites, apps, and services in your Google Account on Google servers and can include associated info like location. Certain interactions may not be saved.
This optional voice and audio activity setting lets you also save audio recordings with Web & App Activity when you interact with Google Search, Assistant, and Maps. This setting is off unless you choose to turn it on.
This setting affects anywhere you’re signed in to Search, Assistant, and Maps, for example, the Assistant on both the Google Assistant app and a Google Home smart speaker.
How audio recordings are used
Google uses audio saved by this setting to develop and improve its audio recognition technologies and the Google services that use them, like Google Assistant.
Audio review process
For some audio technology improvements, samples of audio saved when this setting is on are analyzed by trained reviewers, who listen to, transcribe, and annotate it, so Google services can better interpret the audio, for example, what someone is saying in a noisy environment or in a particular language. We take steps to protect your privacy as part of this process, for example, by disassociating your audio from your account when reviewers analyze it.
This process helps services better understand what people say to them. For example, Google improved automatic speech recognition for data-scarce languages by training a single model on transcribed audio from data-rich languages, which allowed for real-time multilingual speech recognition.
Voice technologies
Some of Google’s audio technologies, like Voice Match, can match similar voices, tell voices apart, or be enhanced by a unique voice. If you use Google Assistant with Voice Match and you’ve turned on this voice and audio activity setting, Google may also temporarily process a model of your voice from your saved audio to develop and improve Google’s voice technologies and Google services that use them.
We take steps to protect your privacy as part of this process. For example, if a model of your voice is computed from saved audio, it is disassociated from your account, temporarily processed to improve our audio recognition technologies, and then deleted. Each instance of this voice processing may take up to 7 days.
When this voice and audio activity setting is on
When this voice and audio activity setting is on for your Web & App Activity, Google will save audio recordings when you interact with Google Search, Assistant, and Maps, in your Google Account on Google servers with your Web & App Activity.
Audio is saved when your device detects an activation. Devices may support different types of activations, for example, “Hey Google,” a quick phrase you turn on, continued conversations, or mic presses. Some devices include a few seconds before the activation to catch the complete request.
Audio may be saved if your device incorrectly detects an activation, like a noise that sounds like “Hey Google.” We’re constantly working to make our systems better at reducing unintended activations.
If you use your device without an internet connection, audio may be saved in your Google Account once you return online.
When this voice and audio activity setting is off
If you turn off this voice and audio activity setting, Google will no longer save audio recordings in your Google Account on Google servers with your Web & App Activity when you interact with Google Search, Assistant, and Maps. Google will continue to process your audio to respond to you when you speak to Google services.
When this setting is off, Google won't use audio previously saved when this setting was on to improve its voice technologies like Voice Match. Previously saved audio may continue to be used to improve other audio technologies unless you delete it.
You can delete previously saved audio with your Web & App Activity at activity.google.com.
This setting does not affect
audio saved and managed by other Google services, like Google Voice and YouTube
audio saved on your device for purposes like setting up and fine-tuning your personal Voice Match or otherwise personalizing audio technologies on your device
Other machine learning processes, not controlled by this setting, may be used to improve audio recognition technologies with federated learning or ephemeral learning, for example:
when the Improve Gboard setting is on, Gboard may save and process audio on your device, using federated learning, to help improve speech recognition for everyone without needing to send what you say to Google servers
Google may process and analyze your audio in real time to improve its audio recognition technologies, using ephemeral learning which doesn’t require saving audio with your Web and App Activity. Learn more at g.co/Assistant/SpeechLearningTechniques
How to manage audio recordings
You have several options for managing audio recordings, saved when this setting is on with Web & App Activity, at activity.google.com, for example:
turn this voice and audio activity setting on or off anytime under the Web & App Activity setting
listen to your audio
choose an auto-delete option or delete audio manually. Google may delete audio sooner, once it's no longer needed for development and improvement, for example, less audio may be needed for some languages over time
download your audio at takeout.google.com
Learn about other data Google saves and why and how data is used to improve our services, including how technologies keep your information safe and how controls help you manage your privacy across our services, at policies.google.com.