Set up & manage Voice Match for your Google Account

• Tell you apart from others and provide more personalized responses. 
• Chat with Google hands-free with “Hey Google.”
• Recognize your voice better in noisy areas.

When Voice Match is turned on for your Google Account, you can access personalized features across Google products like Gemini or Google Nest or Home devices.

Enable Voice Match

Important: Account-level Voice Match is only available for personal accounts that you manage on your own. You can still set up Voice Match for a supervised account on your shared devices in the Family Link app. 

If you haven’t set up Voice Match before, you will be prompted to set it up when you use a product or feature that needs Voice Match. For example, when you use “Hey Google” to talk to Gemini, or when you set up a new Google Home smart speaker, you may be asked to set up Voice Match. To get started, follow the prompts on your device. 

Turn off Voice Match for your Google Account

1. Visit myaccount.google.com. You may need to sign in.
2. Select your profile picture or initial > Manage your Google Account > Data & Privacy > Voice Match.
3. Turn Voice Match off .

Turning off Voice Match for your Google Account disables all products and features that rely on Voice Match, like using “Hey Google” on your Android phone and getting personal results on your Google Home smart speaker. If you later turn on Voice Match for your Google Account through an eligible product or feature, you will need to separately turn on any other features or products that require it. You can choose which products and features use Voice Match in that product's settings.

Use additional languages with Voice Match

To use Voice Match with multiple languages, teach Google your voice in each language you want to use. To teach Google to recognize your voice in additional languages:

1. On your phone or tablet, open the Gemini mobile app .
2. Select your profile picture or initial > Settings > Talk to Gemini hands-free > Manage Voice Match.
3. Under "Voice Match languages," select Add a language.

Tip: You can also set up additional Voice Match languages through the Google Home app settings. 

Supported languages

If you set up Voice Match for your Google Account in a language that’s available for Android devices and isn’t listed for iPhones, open on Android device to manage Voice Match for that language. 

Where you can use Voice Match

Voice Match works across many Google products and features. This includes things like when you: 

• Use “Hey Google” to chat with Gemini on your Android phone or smart watch. 
• Want Google to recognize your voice in a noisy area.
• Want more personalized responses on a device connected through the Google Home app.

When Voice Match is turned on, you can also get personalized responses on enabled devices, like a Google smart speaker or Smart Display connected through the Google Home app. 

Important: When you turn Voice Match off for a specific device, your Voice Match settings stay on for other linked devices unless you turn off Voice Match in your Google Account. 

Voice Match model retention & deletion

Google securely stores your active Voice Match models in your Google Account and on devices where you have set up a feature that requires Voice Match. Inactive models expire after 12 months. Expiration doesn't revoke your Voice Match consent or recordings used to train your Voice Match. It disables features that require that model and deletes the model from that device if no other features or products on that device use the model.

If Voice Match for your Google Account is disabled, it disables all features and products that need Voice Match, deletes your voice models from devices and your voice recordings from your Google Account. Device model deletion requires a device to be online and may take up to 24 hours. You can review your voice recordings in My Activity.

Voice models may be considered biometric data in some areas.