Google voice match feature has been rolled out. Now, your smart device will recognize you with the help of your voice. Bid adieu to complex configurations and authorizations while purchases and switching accounts. Google voice match has got you covered!
What is voice match?
Google voice match is Google’s new feature that figures out who’s speaking. Artificial Intelligence learns and remembers your voice. So, next time you’re trying to interact with the smart assistant, it draws out your images, to-do lists, and calendars.
You don’t have to log out of a specific account and log into yours anymore. Your voice will now serve as your username and password, and the assistant will itself log in. Currently, the Google voice match feature has been limited to only Google Nest and Google Home devices.
However, Google is planning to roll this feature out to other third-party applications that use Google Assistant — like smart speakers, and voice-activated devices. They can hold the information of up to six people!
What is the Hotword Sensitivity Feature?
The Hotword Sensitivity feature determines how far or loud you need to be to wake Google Assistant up. You can adjust so that Google Assistant can easily recognize the wake word wherever you are in your home.
In contrast, you can also program it such that it only wakes up whenever you’re in its close proximity. In this way, you don’t have to worry about Google mistakenly recognizing a word as a wake word, or playing songs without being asked to.
You don’t have to worry about talking carefully with the fear of your smart speaker picking up some phrases from your conversation and reacting to it anymore. Google is planning to place the smart assistant’s control in your hands.
What is the default speaker option?
It’s a minimal change introduced by Google along with Google voice match to bring about a significant change. Imagine you have three different smart speakers in three different places in your home. You probably want to avoid the hassle of carrying your smart speaker from your dining room to your kitchen every time you decide to treat yourself with fun cooking hours.
The default speaker option enables us to play music on smart speakers that aren’t a Google smart speaker. So if you have some other smart speaker with Google assistant incorporated in it, you can play music.
All you have to do is speak out your request, and Google Assistant will play it the specified speaker of your choice without you having to specify it exclusively in the request. It just makes our work super easy.
How to use voice match?
Below are a few basic workarounds that will aid you in using the feature.
● Link your voice
- Open the Google Home app.
- Tap on ‘Home’, then ‘Settings’
- Tap ‘More Settings’ under Google Assistant services
- Navigate to Assistant > Voice match > Add devices
- Follow the steps displayed.
● Teach Google Assistant your voice
- Open the Google Home App.
- Tap on ‘Home’, then ‘Settings’
- Click ‘More Settings’ under Google Assistant services.
- Navigate to Assistant > Voice Match
- Click on ‘Retrain’ under Teach your Assistant your voice again.
● Find the devices linked to your voice
- Open the Google Home app.
- Tap on ‘Home’, then ‘Settings’
- Tap ‘More Settings’ under Google Assistant services
- Navigate to Assistant > Voice match
Your list of speakers, smart displays, and smart clocks that are linked to your voice will pop up on your screen.
● Unlink your voice
- Open the Google Home app.
- Tap on ‘Home’, then ‘Settings’
- Tap ‘More Settings’ under Google Assistant services
- Navigate to Assistant > Voice match
- Choose whichever device you’d like to unlink
Voice match for purchase
Google Voice Match feature will help you complete purchases with the help of Google Assistant with Voice. After you’ve taught the assistant your voice, you can perform transactions and purchases by merely speaking.
This feature is limited to in-app digital purchases through Google play. It does impose a limit to the amount you can shop for, and the number of transactions you can do per day. So, following the roll-out of this feature, you won’t have to always authorize yourself before incurring a transaction.
“Your voice will be your identity!”
