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Ryan S
Ryan S
Retired Sonos Staff
June 11, 2020
Software News

Google Assistant Voice Match Available on Sonos

  • June 11, 2020
  • 27 replies
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Through cloud updates, Google Assistant has added the ability to set up Voice Match on voice enabled Sonos devices. This feature has rolled out to all households where Google Assistant is available.

Voice Match allows you to teach the Google Assistant to recognize your voice. If you have multiple people using the Google Assistant on Sonos, you can set up Voice Match to provide user-specific responses and content based on who is speaking.

This enables personalized results for the person asking Google Assistant questions. For more information about Voice Match, see the Google article here. 

 

Here are the steps to enable Voice Match straight from the Google article linked above:

 

Link your voice

To use Voice Match, you must link a Google Account to the Google Assistant device. If you have multiple Google Accounts, you can choose which account you want to use.

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Home app Google Home.

  2. At the bottom, tap Home Home and then Settings Settings.

  3. Under "Google Assistant services," tap More settings.

  4. Tap Assistant  and then Voice Match and then Add devices.

  5. Follow the steps.

When you link your voice and use the Google Assistant in US English, the Google Assistant automatically acknowledges when you ask it for something politely.

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    flyingpadrejr
    Prodigy I
    June 11, 2020

    Nice! Does that also mean that users can link their own Spotify account from a family plan to their voice and each start their own stream on a speaker without stopping the music from another family member listening to Spotify started with theirvoice?

      Ryan S
      Ryan SAuthor
      Retired Sonos Staff
      June 11, 2020

      Nice! Does that also mean that users can link their own Spotify account from a family plan to their voice and each start their own stream on a speaker without stopping the music from another family member listening to Spotify started with theirvoice?

      Yes. If you’ve linked each of those Spotify accounts in your Google Home app and set up voice match for them, you should be able to use the different accounts with your voices.

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        flyingpadrejr
        Prodigy I
        June 11, 2020

        Nice! Does that also mean that users can link their own Spotify account from a family plan to their voice and each start their own stream on a speaker without stopping the music from another family member listening to Spotify started with theirvoice?

        Yes. If you’ve linked each of those Spotify accounts in your Google Home app and set up voice match for them, you should be able to use the different accounts with your voices.

        Wow, that is really great!

        andrew-schmid
        Lyricist I
        July 9, 2020

        Is this indicative of Chromecast support in the future?

        Gimrigz
        Contributor I
        October 19, 2020

        Hello,

        Is it US English only? I can’t find the setting in French (ca).

         

        Is this going to be available soon?

         

        Thanks.

        Mark P
        Mark P
        Retired Sonos Staff
        October 21, 2020

        Hi @Gimrigz.

        Welcome, thank you for reaching out to Sonos Community. I totally understand where you're coming from and I’m here to help.

        Here are the current countries Google Assistant is currently available.

        Let us know if it works. If you need help with any other information, please be sure to let us know.

         

         

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        Rloveridge
        Lyricist I
        October 29, 2020

        It still doesn't support multiple voice profiles, so you can't have multiple people. One of the sonos support team confirmed that today over online chat.

          Airgetlam
          Airgetlam
          October 29, 2020

          Since all Sonos does is pass the input on the microphone to the voice service’s cloud processing, that would be on the individual voice services. Sonos doesn’t do any processing of voice commands within the Sonos ecosystem. 

          Bruce
          Rloveridge
          Lyricist I
          October 29, 2020

          Yeah, found how to do it through Google assistant on my device.

          Open assistant -> your profile/settings -> voice match -> add devices -> then select the devices you need to give access to your voice data.

          This will have to be done for every person outside of the first person who can use the sonos app. Frustrating that sonos doesn't give the instructions for this and trying to open it through the sonos app tries to open google assistant then just goes straight back to the sonos app. Seems like something they should be able to fix and would expect on high quality devices and companies.

          leogdiniz
          Lyricist III
          December 3, 2020

          Since all Sonos does is pass the input on the microphone to the voice service’s cloud processing, that would be on the individual voice services. Sonos doesn’t do any processing of voice commands within the Sonos ecosystem. 

          Based on this answer, would my problem be in Google's end then?

          I have set up voice match for me and my wife but I can’t get the assistant to play songs on Spotify in the Sonos beam when my wife asks for it.
          The assistant identifies it’s my wife and tries to play her favorite playlist but right after that, it says it can’t play because it needs the same Spotify account to be linked to the Sonos app and google assistant.

          I have both our Spotify accounts in the Sonos app with different names so I expected it to work.

          Can you confirm if this is supported or not @Mark P ?

           

          Thanks

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