Founding research pilot

Voice claims, permissions and provenance for the AI era.

SoundTitle is exploring a dynamic record for how a person claims a relationship to a voice, grants a specific use, withdraws it, and proves what happened over time. It is inspired by public registries, but it is not a government title system and does not decide legal ownership.

Current release boundary

Public registration is paused while identity, privacy and abuse safeguards are implemented. The interface preview accepts no audio. Existing-record lookup is read-only and does not determine identity or purpose authorization.

In an AI system, a voice is not merely an audio file. The durable asset is the changing record of identity claims, permissions, restrictions, revocation, use and payment around it.

The proposed model

A dynamic record, not a one-time certificate

SoundTitle separates evidence, current permissions and technical voice material so each can change under its own rules.

01

Claim and assurance

Record who made a claim and the level of evidence behind it: self-declared, identity checked, live consent checked, agent authority reviewed, or institutionally attested.

02

Current permission state

Represent who may use a voice, for which purpose, model, channel, territory and period—and what withdrawal means for future use and existing outputs.

03

Verifiable event history

Preserve an append-only history of claims, reviews, grants, uses, payments, disputes and revocations without placing raw audio or biometric templates in a public ledger.

Privacy architecture

Public proof should reveal as little as possible

R0 · Public record

Minimal registry facts

An opaque identifier, a narrowly defined record status and cryptographic evidence intended for public verification.

R1 · Restricted operations

Permission and audit detail

Scopes, counterparties, model versions, review evidence and operational audit data available only to authorized parties.

R2 · Biometric private

Audio and voice features

Recordings, embeddings, reversible features and key material isolated from public lookup, analytics and client caches.

Legal meaning

A SoundTitle record shows that a submission or event was recorded at a time. It is not a government registration and does not create, decide or guarantee copyright, performers' rights, personality rights or other property rights.