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.

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 a Google Account to the Google Assistant-enabled device. If you have multiple Google Accounts, you can choose which account you want to use.

1. On most Assistant-enabled devices, open the Google Home app .
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial Assistant settings.
3. Tap Hey Google & Voice Match Other devices.
   • If you have more than one home, tap the home you want to add Voice Match to.
4. Tap Get started.
5. Follow the on-screen instructions.
   • To turn on Voice Match automatically for a speaker, Assistant-enabled device, or Smart Clock you add later to the same home, turn on Devices you add later.

Tip: If you get an error when you add a device, try to join the home linked to the device.

Manage your voice & Voice Match settings

Find which shared devices you’ve turned on Voice Match for

To find a list of shared devices like speakers, Assistant-enabled devices, and Smart Clocks:

1. On most Assistant-enabled devices, open the Google Home app .
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial Assistant settings.
3. Tap Hey Google & Voice Match Other devices.
   • If you have more than one home, tap the home you want to check.
4. Scroll down for a list of shared devices that you’ve turned on Voice Match for.

Retrain Google Assistant to recognize your voice

1. On most Assistant-enabled devices, open the Google Home app .
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial Assistant settings.
3. Tap Hey Google & Voice Match Other devices.
4. Tap Teach your Assistant your voice again Retrain.

Turn off Voice Match

When you turn off Voice Match for your home or a device, you won’t receive personal results on any device unless you set it up again. This won’t affect other Assistant audio or personalization settings. For new devices, Assistant won’t recognize your voice or give personal results.

Turn off Voice Match for your home

1. On most Assistant-enabled devices, open the Google Home app .
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial Assistant settings.
3. Tap Hey Google & Voice Match Other devices.
4. Tap the home you want to remove your voice from Remove Voice Match from this home Remove.

Turn off Voice Match for a specific device

1. On most Assistant-enabled devices, open the Google Home app .
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial Assistant settings.
3. Tap Hey Google & Voice Match Other devices.
   • If you have more than one home, tap the home with the device that you want to turn off Voice Match for.
4. Uncheck the box next to the device you want to turn off Voice Match for.
5. Follow the on-screen steps.

Turn off Voice Match for devices you add later

1. On most Assistant-enabled devices, open the Google Home app .
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial Assistant settings.
3. Tap Hey Google & Voice Match Other devices.
   • If you have more than one home, tap the home you want to update Voice Match settings for.
4. 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

How Voice Match works

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.

Voice Match & 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.

Voice Match & media services

• 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.

Voice Match & saved voice and audio activity

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.

Related resources

• Allow personal results on your Assistant-enabled device
• Access Google Assistant with your voice
• Choose the voice of your Google Assistant
• Let your child use Google Assistant on your devices
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