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How to delete all your voice data from Amazon Echo, Google Assistant, Cortana and Siri

Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft collect your voice data to improve their AI systems. Here's how to delete everything

Amazon Echo's Alexa, Google Assistant and Cortana are always listening to obey your commands. Utter the wake word – Alexa, Cortana or Hey Google, and they spring into life. But what if you don't want your voice recorded and stored on Amazon's servers forevermore?

Thankfully, all these services give you the option of deleting your data. Here's how to remove your voice data collected by the Amazon Echo, Google Home, Siri and Cortana.

'Alexa, delete my data'

You can delete individual recordings – something that may be useful if you've asked Alexa something particularly embarrassing – through Amazon's Alexa app. It's an incomplete but effective way of getting rid of individual commands. Simply select the recording and hit delete.

A more thorough way is to visit Amazon's Your Content page and navigate to the devices tab.

Under each registered Echo there's the option to 'manage voice recordings'. Clicking through prompts a warning that deleting data will "degrade your experience" and also gives the option to get rid of everything.