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Google voice match set up

Setting up Voice Match on Google Smart Speakers

The Voice Match feature is required for the Accessible Reading Canada to function.

It allows your Google devices to recognize you by voice. This may also improve the accuracy of Google’s speech recognition and might help in smoother communication with your smart speaker. Voice Match is a practical setting if you have multiple persons in your household interacting with your devices, allowing for more personalized interactions with each home member. Note: This guide was set up on an iPhone running iOS 15.4. Steps may vary slightly on other platforms.

If you are setting up Voice Match as part of configuring your Google Smart Speaker, skip to step 9. If you are adding Voice Match after already having installed the speaker, continue reading.

Steps to set up Voice Match in your Google Home application

There are a few ways one can set up voice Match. One is to set it up for a specific device in your home, the other is to do it for the entire home, so it will take effect for all compatible Google devices you might have set up, as well as for any future devices you might choose to ad later.

 The following steps are for setting it up for the entire home.

  1. Make sure you are in range of your smart speaker and open the Google Home app on your smart phone or tablet.
  2. Activate the “Account and Settings” button.”
  3. Select Assistant settings.
  4. Scroll down and activate the “Voice Match” button.
  5. To set up voice match for all devices in your Google home, tap the name of your google home. Note: For this and for the following step, if you are using voiceover, you might be stuck on the “Back” button when swiping right. Touch the screen with one finger to move focus away from it.
  6. Tap “Get Started.”
  7. You are being told that any devices you set up later in your Google home will also have voice match enabled. Tap “continue”
  8.  Tap “I agree” to accept Google terms and conditions for using Voice Match.
  9. Here you will find instructions on how to proceed with the actual setup of voice match. Press “Next.”
  10. Follow prompts to say indicated phrases so that Google can learn your voice.
  11. After recording the four indicated phrases, Tap “continue.”
  12. Choose if you want to agree to have Google store future voice interactions on their servers or not.
  13. Further personalization options are now being presented. The only requirement for the Accessible Reading Canada app is that you have personal results turned on.
  14. Congratulations! Voice Match is now set up for your Google smart speaker and all other supported devices in your Google home.

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