Voice Match and media on shared Google smart devices

A Google smart speaker, smart display, or streaming device is often shared among household members. When each person in your household uses Voice Match, all of you can enjoy a more customized media experience.

When you set up Voice Match on a shared device, you can:

• Choose your own default music services.
• Get a personalized music experience based on your listening history, liked songs, and other details of your past interaction with the music service.
• Control your own private library for the music service, which allows you to access your saved songs and playlists.
• Can ask to play recommended YouTube videos or some TV shows or movies from a linked streaming service, which allows you to continue playback from your last saved spot.

Set up Voice Match

Important: These steps don't work with a Google Workspace account. Learn how to use a Google Workspace account on a device.

Voice Match must be associated with a Google Account. Only one Voice Match profile can be associated with a Google Account. If you have multiple Google Accounts, please only choose one account to set up a Voice Match profile.

When you set up Voice Match in your home, you 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.

Share services with other Voice Match users and guests

Once you've set up Voice Match on a shared device, your linked music and video services might be accessible to someone else who speaks to your device with relevant voice commands.

To prevent others from using your music and video services, ask them to:

• Set up Voice Match.
• Set their own default music service and request their music.
• Link their video services.

How Voice Match settings affect media selection

Your voice assistant selects media content based on the person who requested it and their Voice Match status.

	First person who set up Voice Match How to identify this person	Additional Voice Match users	Guests and people without Voice Match
When your voice assistant gets voice commands for music from this person, it will:	Play music from your default music service. If you haven't linked your default service, your voice assistant will use other linked users' music services.	Play music from your default music service. If you haven't linked your default service, your voice assistant will use other linked users' music services.	Play music from the default music service of the first person who set up Voice Match. If the service you requested hasn't been linked, your voice assistant will use other linked users' music services.
When your voice assistant gets voice commands for TV shows and movies from this person, it will:	Play content from your linked streaming service. If you haven't linked your streaming service, your voice assistant will use other linked users' service accounts.	Play content from your linked streaming service. If you haven't linked your streaming service, your voice assistant will use other linked users' service accounts.	Play content from the linked streaming service of the first person who set up Voice Match. If the streaming service you requested hasn't been linked, your voice assistant will use other linked users' streaming services.
When your voice assistant gets voice commands for YouTube videos from this person, it will:	Play content from your YouTube account.	Play content from your YouTube account.	Play content from the YouTube account of the first person who set up Voice Match.

Who is the first person who set up Voice Match

The user who set up the device and linked their voice is also the first person who set up Voice Match.

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