PC Magazine - 09.2019

(Ron) #1

FILTER VOICE ACTIVITY
On the My Activity page, you could scroll and scroll and scroll for days and days
and days. Any info Google has on you is all here. For voice recordings only, look
below the search box, where it says + Filter by Date & Product. Click here, and
leave the date set to “All time.” Then uncheck All Products and select Assistant
and Voice & Audio.


PLAY BACK YOUR VOICE
You know how everyone hates listening to the sound of their own voices?
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My Activity page, you can hear yourself talking to Google Home or Google
Assistant. It makes for some painful listening.


DELETE INDIVIDUAL RECORDINGS
Each entry on My Activity has its own menu, indicated by the three-dot symbol.
Access it to see details, such as which device or app heard the command. The
delete entry option is also under this menu. Sometimes the page lumps a bunch
of things you said together, especially if they all happened in close temporal
proximity. You can click the menu and select delete either way. A warning will
pop up: deleted data can’t be recovered. Since that’s the point, click Delete.

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