Google admitted earlier this month that it has hired language experts, who listen and transcribe Assistant voice recordings, in order to help the company better understand certain languages. The search giant revealed that these language experts only review about 0.2 percent of all audio snippets and that these voice recordings aren't associated with user accounts as part of the review process.

The Assistant sends audio to Google after the device you're using detects that you're interacting with the voice assistant. To prevent the Assistant from sending the audio data when it was activated ...