Microsoft has changed how it handles voice recordings in a way that directly affects what you can see and manage on the Microsoft Privacy Dashboard: new voice clips contributed for product improvement are now de‑identified and are no longer associated with individual Microsoft accounts, which...
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Microsoft recently changed how it handles voice recordings used to improve speech recognition — new voice clips are no longer tied to your Microsoft account and therefore won’t appear on the Privacy Dashboard, but legacy recordings and certain metadata remain viewable and removable through the...
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Microsoft’s public guidance on voice data makes a clear point: voice recordings gathered by speech-recognition features are used to provide and improve services, but the way that data is collected, stored, and displayed in users’ privacy controls has changed significantly — especially since...