Google Home Listening

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Google home listening. Your google home spends most of its time listening for its wake words hey google or ok google the device then records everything you say after the wake word and sends it to google s servers for parsing. But google may be storing what you say forever. Google home might have been listening to more than just wake words such as ok google after a recent software update went live earlier than planned. On the hardware level the speaker locally stores a stream of audio so it can.

The google home is always listening to its environment but it won t record. The recordings are then. Google home and amazon alexa by default always listen to your conversations. Google home is always listening for the phrase ok google so it can take its instructions.

The commands to activate google home speakers are hey google and ok google once anyone says something that resembles those commands google home starts to record. Reddit user brazedowl was frying some. The issue that has some people concerned is the phrase always listening. The google assistant you access via the home is the same as the one on recent android phones such as the google pixel 3a.

Every time you say hey google or physically access the google assistant feature on your smartphone or google home your interactions are recorded and those recordings are. Google has defended its practice of allowing workers to listen to customers audio recordings from its google home smart speakers. Google home is always listening which may be a surprise but that s how the device works.