{"kind":"guides","slug":"voice-assistant-privacy","path":"/guides/voice-assistant-privacy","title":"Delete Alexa, Google, Siri Voice Recordings | SuperClonica","description":"How to review and delete voice recordings kept by Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri, stop saving new ones, and read text aloud fully offline.","h1":"Voice assistant privacy: delete Alexa, Google and Siri recordings","intro":"Smart speakers and phone assistants can keep recordings of what you say to them. All three big assistants let you review that history, delete it and stop new recordings from being saved, but the switches are buried in different places.\n\nHere is where to find them, based on Amazon’s, Google’s and Apple’s own help pages, plus a way to read text aloud that never sends anything off your computer.","sections":[{"heading":"Alexa","paragraphs":["In the Alexa app, open More, Alexa Privacy, Review Alexa History, and pick an entry, a date range, a device or a profile; Delete all History clears everything. The same controls are on the Alexa Privacy Settings web page. Under Manage Your Alexa Data you can choose how long recordings are kept or pick Don’t save, which deletes them after Alexa processes your request. Amazon notes that typed requests and transcripts are kept until they have been inactive for 30 days, and that deleting recordings may make Alexa less accurate."]},{"heading":"Google Assistant","paragraphs":["In your Google Account, open Data and privacy, then Web and App Activity under History settings, and uncheck Include voice and audio activity. From then on, recordings of your voice interactions with Search, Assistant and Maps are not saved to your account. Turning it off does not delete old audio: open Manage activity on the same page, where items with an audio icon include a recording, and delete them one by one or all at once."]},{"heading":"Siri","paragraphs":["Apple stores and reviews Siri and Dictation audio only if you opted in to Improve Siri and Dictation. To change it, go to Settings, Privacy and Security, Analytics and Improvements and turn it off. Apple also notes that the transcripts of Siri and Dictation requests stored on your device are deleted if you turn off both Siri and Dictation."]},{"heading":"Reading aloud without sending text anywhere","paragraphs":["Voice assistants process speech on their servers. If you only need text read aloud, an offline engine keeps everything local: install the free SuperClonica engine with python -m pip install superclonica-cpu and voice a file with superclonica --text-file notes.txt --voice F2 --lang en --output notes.wav. After the model downloads once, it works without the internet, so contracts, medical letters and private notes stay on your computer."]},{"heading":"A five-minute checklist","paragraphs":["Look at your assistant history once to see what is kept. Delete what you do not want. Set auto-deletion or turn off saving. Check every account in the household, because each one has its own history. Repeat after big app updates, since settings move."]}],"faq":[{"question":"How do I delete my Alexa recordings?","answer":"In the Alexa app, open More, Alexa Privacy, Review Alexa History and choose Delete all History, or delete selected entries."},{"question":"How do I stop Google saving my voice?","answer":"In your Google Account, open Web and App Activity and uncheck Include voice and audio activity. Then delete old recordings under Manage activity."},{"question":"Does Apple keep my Siri recordings?","answer":"Only if Improve Siri and Dictation is on. Turn it off in Settings, Privacy and Security, Analytics and Improvements."},{"question":"Is there text to speech that works fully offline?","answer":"Yes. The free SuperClonica engine runs on your own computer and needs the internet only to download the model once."}],"cta":{"catalog":"Browse voices","install":"Install the SuperClonica engine"},"sources":[{"label":"Amazon: Review Your Alexa History","url":"https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GHXNJNLTRWCTBBGW"},{"label":"Amazon: Delete Alexa Voice Recordings and Transcripts Automatically","url":"https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G68KUKTXN92WY3C3"},{"label":"Google Account Help: Manage audio recordings in your Web & App Activity","url":"https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6030020?hl=en"},{"label":"Apple: Improve Siri and Dictation & Privacy","url":"https://support.apple.com/en-am/HT210692"}],"published":"2026-10-31","updated":"2026-10-31","pages":[{"slug":"whatsapp-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/whatsapp-text-to-speech","h1":"WhatsApp text to speech: have messages read aloud, or send text as voice"},{"slug":"turn-off-talkback-voiceover","path":"/guides/turn-off-talkback-voiceover","h1":"How to turn off TalkBack on Android or VoiceOver on iPhone"},{"slug":"read-aloud-extension","path":"/guides/read-aloud-extension","h1":"Read Aloud extension: voices, shortcuts and MP3"},{"slug":"turn-off-caller-name-announcement","path":"/guides/turn-off-caller-name-announcement","h1":"How to stop your phone announcing who is calling"},{"slug":"turn-off-narrator-mac-chromebook-xbox","path":"/guides/turn-off-narrator-mac-chromebook-xbox","h1":"How to turn off the narrator on Mac, Chromebook and Xbox"},{"slug":"google-colab-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/google-colab-text-to-speech","h1":"Text to speech in Google Colab, without installing anything"},{"slug":"custom-alexa-voice","path":"/guides/custom-alexa-voice","h1":"Custom Alexa voice: what works on Echo"},{"slug":"text-to-speech-for-teachers","path":"/guides/text-to-speech-for-teachers","h1":"Text to speech for teachers: classroom audio without a recording booth"},{"slug":"zotero-read-aloud","path":"/guides/zotero-read-aloud","h1":"Zotero Read Aloud: listen to your papers"},{"slug":"safari-read-aloud","path":"/guides/safari-read-aloud","h1":"Safari read aloud: listen to web pages on iPhone, iPad and Mac"},{"slug":"text-to-speech-linux","path":"/guides/text-to-speech-linux","h1":"Linux text to speech: natural offline TTS from the terminal"},{"slug":"ai-voice-scam-calls","path":"/guides/ai-voice-scam-calls","h1":"AI voice cloning scam calls: how they work and how to protect your family"}],"related":[{"slug":"text-to-speech","path":"/text-to-speech","h1":"Text-to-speech that runs on your own computer"},{"slug":"supertonic","path":"/compare/supertonic","h1":"Supertonic vs SuperClonica: same model, faster and cleaner"},{"slug":"fish-audio","path":"/compare/fish-audio","h1":"Fish Audio and Fish Speech vs SuperClonica"},{"slug":"omnivoice","path":"/compare/omnivoice","h1":"OmniVoice vs SuperClonica: more languages or more speed"},{"slug":"qwen3-tts","path":"/compare/qwen3-tts","h1":"Qwen3-TTS vs SuperClonica for local text-to-speech"},{"slug":"voxcpm","path":"/compare/voxcpm","h1":"VoxCPM 2 vs SuperClonica: studio sound or CPU speed"},{"slug":"f5-tts","path":"/compare/f5-tts","h1":"F5-TTS vs SuperClonica: zero-shot cloning or fast CPU speech"},{"slug":"elevenlabs","path":"/compare/elevenlabs","h1":"An offline alternative to ElevenLabs"},{"slug":"kokoro","path":"/compare/kokoro","h1":"Kokoro TTS vs SuperClonica: two small models for local speech"},{"slug":"piper","path":"/compare/piper","h1":"Piper TTS vs SuperClonica: tiny devices or custom voices"},{"slug":"xtts","path":"/compare/xtts","h1":"Coqui XTTS-v2 vs SuperClonica: a Coqui TTS alternative"},{"slug":"chatterbox","path":"/compare/chatterbox","h1":"Chatterbox TTS vs SuperClonica: instant cloning or a trained voice file"}]}