Turn on voice recognition with Voice Match
When you turn on Voice Match, Google Assistant learns your voice to give you personal results. You can turn on Voice Match for a home or specific Assistant-enabled devices like speakers, Smart Display, or Smart Clock. Up to 6 people can use Voice Match in one home through Google Home app.
Tip: If you have more than 6 members in your home, prioritize setting up Voice Match for users who need specific controls (like children or guests) to ensure they have an appropriate experience.
Learn more about Voice Match and personal results.
Important: The languages you can use depend on the device. Learn which languages work on your device.
Turn on Voice Match
Important: These steps won’t work with your Google Workspace account. Learn how to use a Google Workspace account on a device.
To use Voice Match, you must link your Google Account to the Google Assistant-enabled device. If you have multiple Google Accounts, you can select which account you want to use.
- Open Google Home app 👁 Image
. - At the bottom, tap Settings 👁 and then
Google Assistant 👁 and then
Voice Match. - For each device, turn on Voice Match.
If you have Voice Match set up for your Google Account, these steps won’t apply. Learn more about account-level Voice Match.
Tip:
- If you get an error when you add a device, try to join the home linked to the device.
- If your device doesn't appear in the list, you should check that the device is added to the home.
Manage your voice & Voice Match settings
To find a list of shared devices like speakers, Assistant-enabled devices, and Smart Clocks:
- On most Assistant-enabled devices, open the Google Home app 👁 Image
. - At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial 👁 and then
Assistant settings. - Tap Hey Google & Voice Match 👁 and then
Other devices.- If you have more than one home, tap the home you want to check.
- Scroll down for a list of shared devices that you’ve turned on Voice Match for.
- On most Assistant-enabled devices, open the Google Home app 👁 Image
. - At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial 👁 and then
Assistant settings. - Tap Hey Google & Voice Match 👁 and then
Other devices. - Tap Teach your Assistant your voice again 👁 and then
Retrain.
If you already have Voice Match set up for your Google Account, you can also retrain Voice Match for all devices and features linked to your Google Account. Learn more about how to retrain your account-level Voice Match.
Turn off Voice Match
When you turn off Voice Match for your home, you won’t receive personal results on any device connected in your Google Home app unless you set it up again. When you turn off Voice Match for a device, you won’t receive personal results on that device until you turn them on again. This won’t affect other Google Assistant audio or personalization settings. For new devices, Google Assistant won’t recognize your voice or give personal results unless Voice Match is turned on.
Tip: To turn off Voice Match for all devices connected with your Google Account, you can also learn how to turn off Voice Match for your Google Account.
- Open Google Home app 👁 Image
. - At the bottom, tap Settings 👁 and then
Google Assistant 👁 and then
Voice Match. - Tap the home you want to remove your voice from 👁 and then
Remove Voice Match from this home 👁 and then
Remove.
- Open Google Home app 👁 Image
. - At the bottom, tap Settings 👁 and then
Google Assistant 👁 and then
Voice Match. - Uncheck the box next to the devices you want to turn off Voice Match for.
- Tap Remove Voice Match from this home.
- Open Google Home app 👁 Image
. - At the bottom, tap Settings 👁 and then
Google Assistant 👁 and then
Voice Match.- If you have more than one home, tap the home you want to update Voice Match settings for.
- Turn off devices you add later.
Tip: You can also remove Voice Match from all devices. To remove Voice Match, tap Remove Voice Match from all my devices.
Understand how your voice works with other settings
After you teach Google Assistant to recognize your voice, a unique voice model is created.
- This voice model is created on Google’s servers and then stored only on the devices where you’ve turned on Voice Match.
- When someone speaks to your device, it sends the voice model to Google to process the query and determine if it’s you by comparing it against the voice model. Google deletes the voice model and comparison data immediately after the process.
- If Google identifies you, your device provides your personal results.
- Without a match, the device treats the query as a guest query and won't provide personal results.
- Anyone can access personal results if no one turns on Voice Match for the Google Assistant device and the person who set up the device allows personal results.
- After you turn on Voice Match, Google Assistant won't respond with your personal results to a voice it doesn’t recognize as yours.
- If you turn on Voice Match, Google Assistant can provide personalized music and video suggestions and choose specific music and video services.
- When other people use the Google Assistant device that you’ve turned on Voice Match for, your media history and recommendations from these services might change.
- To stop others from using your media services, ask them to turn on Voice Match for the shared device and link their own music and video services.
Google may also temporarily process a model of your voice from your audio saved on Google servers to develop and improve Google's voice technologies if you:
- Turn on Voice Match and choose to save your voice and audio activity from interactions with Search, Assistant, and Maps in your Web & App Activity in your Google Account.
This setting helps Google improve its audio technologies and the Google services that use them.