You can teach Google Assistant to recognize your voice with Voice Match. Then you can link your voice to a speaker, Smart Display, or Smart Clock so you can use voice commands to get personal results. You can link up to 6 people’s voices with Voice Match to a single speaker, Smart Display, or Smart Clock.
Learn more about Voice Match and personal results.
To upgrade to the new version of Voice Match, everyone whose voice is linked to your device must complete the upgrade.
Important: The languages you can use depend on the device. Learn which languages work on your device.
Link your voice
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On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Home app
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At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial
Assistant settings.
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Tap Voice Match
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Follow the steps.
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Assistant settings.Tip: If you get an error when you try to add a device, try to join the home linked to the device.
Manage your voice
To find a list of shared devices, like speakers, Smart Displays, and Smart Clocks:
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Home app
- At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial
Assistant settings
- Scroll down for a list of shared devices that are linked to your voice.
Assistant settings - On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Home app
- At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial
- Tap Teach your Assistant your voice again
Important: If your device runs Cast version 1.36 and lower, or you try these steps and your device is still linked, you must factory reset your device to unlink your voice.
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Home app
- At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial
- Choose what device to unlink.
- Unlink your voice from a specific device: Next to the device you want to unlink, tap Clear
- Unlink your voice from all eligible devices: Tap Remove from eligible devices
- Unlink your voice from a specific device: Next to the device you want to unlink, tap Clear
Important: This feature is only available in English in the US.
- On your Android phone or tablet, say "Hey Google, open Assistant settings."
- Under "Popular settings," tap You
- Turn on Pay through your Assistant.
- Turn on Pay with Voice Match.
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, your device 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 processing.
- If Google identifies you, your device will provide your personal results.
- Without a match, the device will treat the query as a guest query and will not provide personal results.
- If no one links their voice with Voice Match to the Google Assistant device and the person who set up the device allows personal results, anyone can access those personal results.
- After you link your voice with Voice Match, Google Assistant will not respond with your personal results to a voice it doesn’t recognize as yours.
- A voice that sounds like yours might be able to access your personal results, such as sending an email, making a payment (if you’ve turned on Confirm with Voice Match), or viewing your calendar. If you aren't comfortable with this you can turn off personal results.
- If you link your voice with Voice Match and choose specific music and video services, Google Assistant can provide personalized music and video suggestions.
- When other people use the Google Assistant device that is linked to your voice, your media history and recommendations from these services might change.
- To stop others from using your media services, ask them to link their voice to the shared device and link their own music and video services.