When you turn on Voice Match, you can teach Google Assistant to recognize your voice so it can verify who you are before it gives you personal results. You can turn on Voice Match for a home or specific Assistant-enabled devices, like a speaker, Smart Display, or Smart Clock. Up to 6 people can turn on Voice Match for one home in the 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
- On most Assistant-enabled devices, open the Google Home app
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- At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial
Assistant settings.
- Tap Hey Google & Voice Match
- If you have more than one home, tap the home you want to add Voice Match to.
- Tap Get started.
- 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.
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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 & 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
- At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial
Assistant settings
- 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.
Assistant settings - On most Assistant-enabled devices, open the Google Home app
- At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial
- Tap Teach your Assistant your voice again
When you turn off Voice Match for your home, you'll no longer get personal results on any device in that home unless you set up personal results again. Also, when you turn off this setting, it won't turn off other Assistant audio or personalization settings.
- On most Assistant-enabled devices, open the Google Home app
- At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial
- Tap the home you want to remove your voice from
When you turn off Voice Match for a device, you'll no longer get personal results on that device unless you set up personal results again. Also, when you turn off this setting, it won't turn off other Assistant audio or personalization settings.
- On most Assistant-enabled devices, open the Google Home app
- At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial
- If you have more than one home, tap the home with the device that you want to turn off Voice Match for.
- Uncheck the box next to the device you want to turn off Voice Match for.
- Follow the onscreen steps.
When you turn off Voice Match for devices you add later, your Assistant won't recognize your voice and won't give personal results on new devices added to your home.
- On most Assistant-enabled devices, open the Google Home app
- At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial
- 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.
Important: This feature is only available in English in the US.
- On most Assistant-enabled devices", 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
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, 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 turns on Voice Match for the Google Assistant device and the person who set up the device allows personal results, anyone can access those 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.
- 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 turn on 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 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.