How to Disable Alexa’s Listening: A Comprehensive Guide!
Users must allow Alexa to monitor background noise to detect wake-up commands and perform tasks through voice commands.
However, if users only need their Echo speaker to play audio without interacting with it using their voice, they can disable Alexa from listening.
Follow these steps to stop Alexa from listening:
- The simplest way to stop is by pressing the mute button on their Echo speaker.
- The mute button is activated on a fourth-generation speaker, while all generations have a mute button that seems like a circle with a line going through it.
- Once the users press it, Alexa would eventually stop listening and users would know that listening has been deactivated when the Echo ring light turns red.
If users want Alexa to listen to their voice commands while also enhancing their privacy, here are a few tips and tricks they should try:
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- Avoid utilising the “Computer” wake word, as this is a common word that could simply come up in conversations.
- Adhere to less common wake words, like “Ziggy” and “Alexa” to help lower the notice of Alexa listening when it shouldn’t be.
- In addition, consider deleting your Alexa voice history, It would put off any in-app recordings of your voice that Alexa might stored.
- However, Alexa has been known to take its listening habits a little too far, there are things the users can do to restrict the kind of data it can store.
