Get the most out of your Google Home

1. Customize your voice assistant settings

You can enjoy a more customized experience through the Google Home app or on individual devices by setting up and managing Voice Match. This will allow personalized results, such as results from your Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Photos, YouTube Music personal playlists, and more.

You need to have a Google Account set up to associate with Voice Match. When you set up Voice Match in your home, you can turn it on for all devices currently in your home and devices you add later. At any time, you can turn off Voice Match for a specific device.

Set up Voice Match

If you use Gemini for Home voice assistant:

  1. Open the Google Home app .
  2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or Initial.
  3. Tap Home settings  and then Gemini for Home voice assistant and then Voice Match.
  4. If the app shows all devices that support Voice Match, tap a device to enable or disable Voice Match.

Once you have Voice Match set up, you can also enable Face Match on a Google Nest Hub Max. Also note that Google Pixel Tablet doesn't support Face Match setup and management. If you set up Nest Hub Max with your Pixel Tablet, you need to use the Google Home app on another compatible mobile device. The Home app lets you set up and manage Face Match.

Set up Face Match

  1. Make sure your mobile device or tablet is linked to the same account as your display. Learn how to check which Google Account is linked to a speaker or display.
  2. Open the Google Home app .
  3. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or Initial.
  4. Tap Home settings  and then Gemini for Home voice assistant and then Face Match.
  5. Follow the in-app steps.

Turn on Look and Talk to simply look at your display to talk to Google. Learn how to Look and Talk to Google on Nest Hub Max.

Turn on Devices you add later to automatically add Face Match to new devices in the same home.

Tip: Look and Talk is only available in English.

Control which devices show personalized results

  1. Open the Google Home app .
  2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or Initial.
  3. Tap Home settings  and then Gemini for Home voice assistant and then Personal results.
  4. Edit settings for the devices in your home to turn personal results on or off.

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