Turn on voice recognition with Voice Match

Turn on Voice Match

Manage your voice and Voice Match settings

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 and Voice Match Other devices.
   • If you have more than one home, tap the home that you want to check.
4. Scroll down for a list of shared devices for which you've turned on Voice Match.

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 and Voice Match Other devices.
4. Tap Teach your Assistant your voice again Retrain.

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 and Voice Match Other devices.
4. Tap the home from which you want to remove your voice Remove Voice Match from this home Remove.

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 and 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. Untick the box next to the device for which you want to turn off Voice Match.
5. Follow the on-screen steps.

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 and Voice Match Other devices.
   • If you have more than one home, tap the home for which you want to update Voice Match settings.
4. Turn off Devices that 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 recognise 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 that it doesn't recognise as yours.

• If you turn on Voice Match, Google Assistant can provide personalised music and video suggestions and choose specific music and video services.
• When other people use the Google Assistant device with which you've turned on Voice Match, 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.