How to Add Multiple User Accounts on Google Home
The Google Home has always been a really nice smart speaker, capable of performing a wide variety of tasks, including things like giving an overview of the day, casting photos and videos to Cast-enabled devices, checking the calendar, and a lot more. However, one of the major shortcomings of the smart speaker, was that it was unable to identify different voices, and provide personalized results for them. So, if two users wanted to share the same Google Home device, they’d have to share their music playlists, their daily feed, and a lot more. Fortunately, Google has now updated the Google Home to support multiple user accounts (up to 6, to be exact). So, if you’d like to set up multiple users on your Google branded smart speaker,here is how to add multiple user accounts on Google Home:
Teach Google Home to Recognize Your Voice
Before we start adding other user accounts to the Google Home, let’s make sure it recognizes our voice properly, first. This can be done very easily, and doesn’t take long. Just follow the steps given below:
Note:While a lot of people are saying that a “Multiple Users are now supported” card is showing up on their Google Home app, it didn’t show up on my phone, for some reason. So, I used the longer method for getting this to work. If you see the card, you can tap on it to set up multiple users as well.
Adding Multiple Users on Google Home
Now that you’ve ensured that the Google Home can recognizeyourvoice, it’s time to add other users to the Google Home settings. This can be done on their phones, with the Google Home app, and it can also be done directly on your phone. I’m using my own phone to add the new users. Here are the steps you’ll have to take:
You can currently add up to 6 different people to the same Google Home speaker. This is definitely a great new feature, and one that will help a lot of people avoid sharing their playlists, photos, and personal preferences with other members of the household. Obviously, if you’d rather share the same email ID with the entire household, you don’t really have to change anything at all.
SEE ALSO:How to Control Your Android Phone from Google Home
Add Multiple Users on Google Home for Personalized Responses
With Google Home finally supporting multiple users, you can easily add all of your family members’ Google accounts to the Home, and teach the smart speaker to recognize different voices, associate them with a Google account, and give personalized results according to the voice it recognizes. One of the first things I tried, was adding multiple accounts and train them all with my own voice. However, it turns out that while you can add multiple Google accounts, and teach them all your own voice, Google Home simply associates the voice with the account that was added first, so it’s not really useful for anything.
As always, I’d like to know your thoughts on the Google Home, the new capabilities that Google has added to it, and what you think about how this will impact the Google Home vs Amazon Echo comparisons. Do share your thoughts in the comments section below.
Akshay Gangwar
Greetings, tech titans and fellow literary time-travelers! I’m Akshay, your tech-whisperer and Harry Potter’s number one stalker – seriously, don’t ask me how many times I’ve read those books; it’s borderline unhealthy.
Working in the tech journalism industry since 2016, I have 7 years of experience covering everything from technology news, to well-researched resource articles. Now the Content Strategist at Beebom, I often pen down op-eds for our website, sharing expert commentary on the latest in technology, AI, and electric cars.
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