Set up and manage Voice Match in your home through the Google Home app or on individual devices. Your voice assistant can then recognize your voice across shared devices to provide personalized updates regarding your calendar, commute and your day.
When each person in your household uses Voice Match, all of you can enjoy a more customized media experience. Once set up on a shared device, you can:
- Choose your own default music services.
- Get a personalized music experience based on your listening history, liked songs, and other details of your past interaction with the music service.
- Control your own private library for the music service, which allows you to access your saved songs and playlists.
- Ask to play recommended YouTube videos or some TV shows or movies from a linked streaming service, which allows you to continue playback from your last saved spot.
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.
Set up Voice Match
Important: These steps don't work with a Google Workspace account. Learn how to use a Google Workspace account on a device.
Voice Match must be associated with a Google Account. Only one Voice Match profile can be associated with a Google Account. If you have multiple Google Accounts, only choose one account to set up a Voice Match profile.
When you set up Voice Match in your home, you can turn it on for all devices currently in your home and devices you add later. At any time, you can turn off Voice Match for a specific device.
If you use Gemini for Home voice assistant:
- Open the Google Home app
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- At the top right, tap your Profile picture or Initial.
- Tap Home settings
Gemini for Home voice assistant
Voice Match.
- The app shows all devices that support Voice Match. Tap a device to enable or disable Voice Match.
- If you don’t have any devices with Voice Match enabled, tap More and follow the in-app steps.
- Open the Google Home app
.
- At the top right, tap your Profile picture or Initial.
- Tap Home settings
Google Assistant
Voice Match.
- The app shows all devices that support Voice Match. Tap a device to enable or disable Voice Match.
- If you don’t have any devices with Voice Match enabled, tap More and follow the in-app steps.
You can also update your Voice Match settings in your Google Account. Refer to Set up & manage Voice Match for your Google Account.
Share services with other Voice Match users and guests
Once you've set up Voice Match on a shared device, your linked music and video services might be accessible to someone else who speaks to your device with relevant voice commands.
To prevent others from using your music and video services, ask them to:
- Set up Voice Match.
- Set their own default music service and request their music.
- Link their video services.
Your voice assistant selects media content based on the person who requested it and their Voice Match status.
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Who is the first person who set up Voice Match
The user who set up the device and linked their voice is also the first person who set up Voice Match.
Learn how to manage home members.
Turn off Voice Match
For a home in the Google Home app
- Open the Google Home app
.
- At the top right, tap your Profile picture or Initial.
- Tap Home settings
Google Assistant or Gemini for Home voice assistant
Voice Match.
- Turn off Use Voice Match in this home.
- If you have more than one home, tap the home you want to remove Voice Match from.
- Open the Google Home app
.
- At the top right, tap your Profile picture or Initial.
- Tap Home settings
Google Assistant or Gemini for Home voice assistant
Voice Match.
- Uncheck the box next to the device you want to turn off Voice Match for, then follow the steps.
- Open the Google Home app
.
- At the top right, tap your Profile picture or Initial.
- Tap Home settings
Google Assistant or Gemini for Home voice assistant
Voice Match.
- Tap Manage your Voice Match settings
Turn off.
What happens if you turn off Voice Match
For your home
- Your voice pattern will be completely removed from this home and all the devices in it. If you’ve set up Face Match, your face pattern will also be removed.
- Your voice assistant will no longer be able to recognize your voice or face.
- Personal results will turn off. Learn how to turn personal results back on without Voice Match.
- Your Google Account and voice pattern will be completely removed from the device. On a Nest Hub Max, Face Match will also be removed.
- Your voice assistant will no longer be able to recognize your voice or face on the device.
- Personal results will turn off for this device. Learn how to turn personal results back on without Voice Match.
If you turn off Voice Match or Face Match for individual devices within a home, your voice and face patterns will still be available in the home. Both Voice Match and Face Match will automatically be enabled on new compatible devices.
To access or remove the audio clips or photos you took during Voice Match and Face Match setup, go to https://myactivity.google.com/.