Family voice

Copies your own voice: documents, books and stories are read in your voice. Ideal for having a story read to your child in their mother's or father's voice, or leaving a letter in your own voice for older relatives.

1. 1Choose a language and tick the two boxes confirming that this is your voice and that you give explicit consent to it being copied. You may only copy your own voice; recording someone else's voice is forbidden.
2. 2Read the paragraph on screen for 10-30 seconds in a quiet place, at your natural pace.
3. 3Read the consent sentence word for word (in English: "I am the owner of this voice and I consent to Google Cloud using this voice to create a synthetic voice model.").
4. 4Give the voice a name (e.g. "Mum's voice") and tap "Create". A few seconds later, play the sample with "Listen" and choose it with "Read with this voice".

Privacy: the recordings and the voice key stay only on your device and in the › family-voice folder of your own Google Drive; they reach your other devices from there. The server passes the recording to Google once, only to produce the key, and doesn't keep it; Google doesn't keep the key either. The key is quietly renewed from the recordings every 7 days. Audio read with a family voice isn't cached. To delete, tap the bin in the list: the recordings are deleted from the device and from Drive.

If the voice isn't recognised (the recording couldn't be used), record again in a quieter place, closer to the microphone.