Turn on voice recognition with 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.

1. Open Google Home app.
2. At the bottom, tap Settings Google Assistant Voice Match.
3. For each device, turn on 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.

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.

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.

1. Open Google Home app.
2. At the bottom, tap Settings Google Assistant Voice Match.
3. Tap the home you want to remove your voice from Remove Voice Match from this home Remove.

Tip: Some older devices might need Voice Match removed another way.

1. Open Google Home app.
2. At the bottom, tap Settings Google Assistant Voice Match.
3. Uncheck the box next to the devices you want to turn off Voice Match for.
4. Tap Remove Voice Match from this home.

1. Open Google Home app.
2. At the bottom, tap Settings Google Assistant Voice Match.
   • If you have more than one home, tap the home you want to update Voice Match settings for.
3. 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.

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.