Follow the steps on Google’s support site under the heading Teach Google Assistant your voice again.
Important: If you have multiple people using a device with Voice Match, make sure everyone using the device follows the steps to re-teach Google Assistant their voice, even if only one person is having trouble with their voice being recognized.
If you continue to have issues with the Assistant not recognizing your voice, please contact us.
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Google Voice Assistant
is an interesting feature of Google that facilitates controlling your device through your voice. You can use Google Voice Assistant to control your devices and also smart home. Google Assistant can help you in accessing your calendar, finding information and businesses in given areas, booking for hotels restaurants, movie shows and other events, playing music from your device, opening apps on your phone, sending messages and making appointments, and reading out notifications to you besides many others. Here is how you can activate the Google Assistant Voice Recognition feature.
Steps to activate Google Voice Assistant on your phone
- To begin with, open the applications tray.
- Locate the Google App and tap on it to open.
- On the Google App, tap on the three dots you will find on the bottom screen.
- Tap on the Settings Gear.
- Tap on Voice
- Tap on Voice match or “OK Google” detection feature.
- You will find a list of options to choose from. Select from the options in order to activate.
- Get started and you need to agree to conditions if prompted.
- When you see the prompt, say “Ok Google”
- The app will prompt you to say “OK Google” a few times for the sake of mapping your voice for recognition. On some devices, you may also be able to say “Hey Google”.
Note: If the voice search is available in your language and country, you can make use of some commands in your own language. Some commands are not available in all languages.
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Voice Access helps anyone who has difficulty manipulating a touch screen (e.g. due to paralysis, tremor, or temporary injury) use their Android device by voice.
Voice Access provides many voice commands for:
- Basic navigation (e.g. "go back", "go home", "open Gmail")
- Controlling the current screen (e.g. "tap next", "scroll down")
- Text editing and dictation (e.g. "type hello", "replace coffee with tea")
You can also say "Help" any time to see a short list of commands.
Voice Access includes a tutorial which introduces the most common voice commands (starting Voice Access, tapping, scrolling, basic text editing, and getting help).
You can use the Google Assistant to start Voice Access by saying "Hey Google, Voice Access". To do this, you’ll need to enable "Hey Google" detection. You can also tap either the Voice Access notification or a blue Voice Access button and start talking.
To pause Voice Access temporarily, just say "stop listening". To disable Voice Access completely, go to Settings > Accessibility > Voice Access and turn off the switch.
For additional support, see Voice Access help.
This app uses the AccessibilityService API to help users with motor impairments. It uses the API to collect information about the controls on the screen and activate them based on the user’s spoken instructions.
Just because you share your Google Home or Nest device with your family members doesn’t mean Google has to feel like a shared assistant. Thanks to a feature called Voice Match, the Google Assistant on your Google Home devices can respond with personalized information based on the voice giving the command or asking the question. For example, Google Assistant can give you and your partner different estimated commute times based on the addresses you have listed as your workplace.
Contents
- 1. Open the Google Home App
- 2. Go to your account and Assistant Settings
- 3. Choose Voice Match
- 4. Select Devices
- 5. Train Your Voice
- 6. Turn on Personal Results
- 7. Invite Others to Set Up Voice Match
Do you like CNN but your partner is all about NPR? You can customize your daily news briefings, so you can get news reports catered specifically to you, while your roommate gets specific reports for them. To enjoy Voice Match, you’ll have to go through a short series of steps. Every person who uses Voice Match — up to six individuals total — must link a Google Account and voice to your Google Home device. Here’s what you’ll need to do to get Voice Match set up on your Google Home.
1. Open the Google Home App
To get started, open up the Google Home app on your phone or tablet and sign in if necessary. Be sure you’ve updated the app to the latest available version for the set-up to work properly. Then, double-check that your phone or tablet is on the same Wi-Fi network as the Google Home, as this will ensure the devices will be able to communicate effectively.
2. Go to your account and Assistant Settings
In the home screen of the app, look at the upper right corner and you should see your Google account profile pic. Select this to continue. It’s important that you’re signed into your personal account for this process, otherwise Voice Match doesn’t do much good.
When the account window opens up, choose Assistant Settings.
3. Choose Voice Match
Scroll down through Assistant Settings until you find the section called Voice Match, and select it.
4. Select Devices
Now choose the option to Add a Device. This will list all devices attached to your Google Account as long as they are connected to Wi-Fi and detectable (set up any new devices you have before doing this). Choose any Home or Nest smart speakers you are currently using, and then select Next. Google will let you know the process does require keeping some personal information, so select I Agree if you want to move on.
5. Train Your Voice
If this is your first time setting up Voice Match, you’ll need to say a few words so that Home/Nest can learn to recognize the sound of your voice. The app will give you some word prompts that you should follow, such as saying “OK Google” twice and “Hey Google” twice. You may have to repeat phrases.
If you’ve already set up Voice Match recently, you will be able to skip this step, but you also have the option of retraining the Google Home (voices can change, as can the location of Home/Nest devices).
6. Turn on Personal Results
Throughout the Voice Match method, Google will also question if you would like to enable Personal results. This particular mode makes everything in Voice Match function properly, selecting customized information that pairs the voice with the account. If you fail to switch this on, Voice Match won’t really work correctly. So, double-check that you’ve enabled it. You can always turn it off from your settings menu if you ever decide to stop using Voice Match.
7. Invite Others to Set Up Voice Match
Perhaps your other friends and family members want to start using Voice Match as well. Thankfully, you can easily invite other people to set up their own voices on Voice Match. All you’ll need to do is click Invite and pick a method of communication. You’ll also have the opportunity to skip this step if you so choose.
If other people establish their own Voice Matches, they will also have to connect their own default music settings, video services, and other customized options to their Google accounts. If they don’t, Google will continue using your account information regardless of who is saying the voice commands.
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