How to manage your voice and audio activity on Google

When you ask Google Now a question, or use text-to-speech to respond to someone, these recordings are being saved to your Google account. The recordings are only accessible by you, but may include some information you don’t feel comfortable having in the cloud — like a private conversation.

On the other hand, you may just want to reference your recordings for a piece of information that you used your voice to look up or send to someone else. Whatever your preference, PhoneArena recently shared how you can play and delete your recordings, and how to disable them from being saved in the future:

Voice activity management

• Head to the Voice & Audio Activity page. You may be prompted to sign-in again.

• You can listen to recordings using the Play button under each one.

This is useful if you recall using voice search to look up something like a movie or book title recently, can’t remember the exact words, and want to learn more about it now.

• To delete: click the check boxes next to recordings and then click the Delete menu option in the top right-hand corner.

Want to delete more at once? Before checking any boxes, click the overflow menu (three dots) in the top right-hand corner > Delete options. You can choose to delete recordings from today, yesterday, the past week, the past four weeks, or even all time (every recording).

Turn off recording history

• On the Voice & Audio Activity page, click the overflow menu (three dots) and choose Settings.

• Toggle the blue switch. You’ll be prompted to confirm you want to pause recording history; click Pause.

So whether you just want to look through the recordings on your account, or you want to stop them from happening, Google provides you the tools to do either. What’s your preferred setting for voice history? Share your thoughts in the comments.