2025-03-28: Local voice processing to be removed from Alexa

Amazon announced to remove the capability of its Alexa devices to do local voice recognition from its (your) devices. Now all speech recordings will be sent to the cloud, but at least Amazon won't store them. It has hinted this is because of new “AI” features under the name “Alexa+” in the future. In the past Amazon has passed voice recordings of its customers to the police as evidence, and let workers around the word transcribe recordings to “improve Alexa's performance”.