Picture this

Who it is for

Ifeoma, a radio host, lists her voice. A podcast app pays per minute of generated audio; one click revokes the license if she dislikes the use.

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$329

$82 deposit to reserve

Consent license contract, metered usage billing, revocation switch, licensee dashboard

You choose: chain
You choose: name and logo
You choose: accent color
You choose: per-minute price

Customfrom $2,500

Built around you

Reshape it entirely: new features, your flows, your brand end to end, integrations you need. We scope it with you.

Everything in Base
Custom features and design
Priority build

Why it is new

What exists today, and what this does differently

What is new

Revocable onchain voice consent exists only as a hackathon build; per-minute metered billing on top is the uncommon part.

Closest things out there

Veilfor (ETHGlobal hackathon) licenses voice and face as revocable onchain assets on Hedera; Story Protocol covers IP licensing and ElevenLabs pays creators centrally.

Checked with web searches in October 2026. A search is not proof that nothing similar exists, and the market moves fast, so we recheck before every build.

What it unlocks

The human in it

Your voice earns without being stolen.

The Regatta Board

Races it can enter

accelerator · Alliance · rolling

Alliance DAO accelerator

rolling cohorts

Official page ↗

Consumer AI; existing OK

Their rule on existing code: Existing projects OK

What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

The complete Voice Lease app: people license their voice to AI apps by the minute on their own terms, with consent recorded onchain, a policy gate on every script and one switch to revoke any app, with a paywall, owner console and gate agent built in.

Base price · $329

The user app, complete

Every buyer gets the same finished app. Basic branding and copy changes come through a quick form.

Three step onboardingHome

Shown once: your voice is already out there, yes to some uses and no to others, paid by the minute and off with one switch.

License progress and next actionHome

Terms, earning, revoked and Sunday, with minutes, earnings and a booth activity feed.

Consent termsTerms

Allowed and banned uses, price per minute and daily cap signed as a license, with a share page; per app terms gated.

Live meter and policy gateMeter

App requests checked before generation, banned uses held, new apps wait for the owner's ear, metered minutes.

Revocation switchesApps

Every licensee with a switch that stops new audio within seconds; clone scan gated behind Studio.

Sunday listenSunday

Three sampled clips to approve or flag, a weekly streak and statements gated behind Studio.

Plans and settingsMe

Plans with crypto checkout, new app holds and settlement details.

Open the full app demo

Add-on

Owner console

Your admin side: revenue, paywall editor, users, rules and the agent log.

Revenue and paywall editorRevenue

Voice share and Studio revenue, payouts, incoming USDC, payment methods and live editing of tiers, prices and gates.

Licensee approvalsLicensees

Approve publishers and apps, decline impersonation call services, gate stats.

Rules, agent log and roadmapRules

Review window, minimum price, settlement and translation; plus the gate Agent log and priced Roadmap.

Top-up

Growth and referrals

Referral and growth mechanics, switched on when you are ready to grow.

Station roster days and referralsGrowth

Run a station roster day, see loops and simulate voice referrals.

The money path, built in

How it earns for you

Listing a voice costs nothing up front: the app keeps a share of license income. Agencies and radio stations pay monthly plus a smaller share for rosters, and licensee apps pay the voice's per minute rate plus generation cost.

Voice10% of license incomeList one voice, set uses and price, live meter, revoke switch and Sunday listen

Studio$29 a month + 5%Several voices for an agency or station, per licensee approvals and monthly statements

LicenseeUsage basedApps pay the voice's per minute rate plus generation cost, with a policy gate and consent receipts

Generation costs a few cents to around 20 cents a minute, paid by licensees. Policy checks are a fraction of a cent per script and hourly settlement on Base is well under a cent per batch.

Prices are yours to set. Illustrative, not a promise of income.

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

License pages shared by voices
Credits and links in every licensee app
Radio stations and agencies onboarding rosters
The Sunday listen habit
Station roster days and voice referrals

Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included

The full voice license

Consent license contract
Policy gate on every script
Metered billing and hourly settlement
Revocation switch
Paywall, owner console, gate agent

Included

Voice rights desk

Watermark detection API
Takedown request drafts
Multi language voices
Union rate cards

Add-on from $1,200

Marketplace and estates

Searchable voice marketplace
Estate and heir controls
Story Protocol style IP registry
Revenue splits with producers

Add-on from $2,500

For investors and grant reviewers

The pitch, ready

License your voice to AI apps by the minute, with consent recorded onchain and revocable anytime.

Problem: Voice actors, radio hosts and narrators are cloned without asking, and the ones who would license their voice have no simple way to say yes to some uses, get paid for what is generated, and take it back.

Solution: A consent license on Base records allowed and banned uses, price and cap. Every script passes a policy gate before generation, minutes are metered and settled hourly in USDC, and a revoke transaction stops new audio within seconds.

Why now: Hosted voice generation is cheap and everywhere, which makes consent and metering urgent, and small models make per script policy checks almost free.

Market: Voice actors, radio hosts, narrators, the stations and agencies that represent them, and the apps that want licensed voices.

The ask: A pilot with one Lagos radio station's hosts and two story apps.

Funding is never guaranteed. Check each program's rules.

For hackathons and demo days

Your 2 minute demo

Home: meet Ifeoma, a midnight radio host in Lagos.
Terms: stories and audiobooks yes, betting and fake calls never, $0.25 a minute.
Meter: Dusk Stories generates 14 minutes; a betting script is held.
Apps: revoke SpinBet NG and watch its next request refused.
Sunday: approve three clips, hit the Studio paywall for statements and pay in USDC.
Owner Agent: the Yoruba loan pitch, caught after the fix.
Owner Revenue and Licensees: change the voice share, decline an impersonation call service.
Owner Growth and Roadmap: run a station roster day, then request the rights desk.

Many hackathons require code written at the event. See the Regatta Boardfor each race's rule.

Make it entirely yours

Custom work from $2,500: other voice providers, agency portals, union integrations or a different consent chain. Scoped on a call.

Custom from $2,500

BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The need

Voice actors, radio hosts and narrators are being cloned without asking. The ones who would happily license their voice have no simple way to say yes to some uses, no to others, get paid for what is actually generated, and take it back.

What exists and what is new

Parts of this exist. Veilfor, an ETHGlobal hackathon build, licenses voice and face as revocable onchain assets on Hedera. Story Protocol covers onchain IP licensing in general, and ElevenLabs pays voice creators through its own central marketplace. Research verdict: rare, medium novelty. What is less common here is per minute metered billing tied to an onchain consent license with use categories the owner picks, a revoke switch that stops new generations, and a weekly listening habit for the voice owner. Revocation cannot unmake audio already generated, and the app says so.

The data it runs on

The owner's signed consent license (allowed and banned uses, price per minute, daily cap), licensee identities, metered minutes per generation batch, settlement payments, revocation events, and offchain: the voice model, sample clips, transcripts of generated audio for policy checks, and watermark detection results.

1.The mission

Let people earn from their voice on their own terms, and make saying no as easy as saying yes.

2.Why people can't resist it

The off switch One tap revokes a license and new generations stop at the next check. People feel safe enough to say yes in the first place.

The meter Minutes tick up live with the app that used them and what for. Earnings feel real, not abstract.

Sunday listen Three random clips of your voice from the week, approve or flag. Takes five minutes and keeps you in charge.

3.How it works for real

Consent license: A license contract on Base (or a Story compatible EVM chain) records the owner, allowed use categories, banned uses, price per minute and daily cap, signed from a Privy embedded wallet.

Licensee access: Apps get an API key tied to their wallet and the license id. The voice model runs on a hosted TTS provider under the operator's account; licensees never receive the model.

Policy gate: Each script is checked before generation: a small model (for example Claude Haiku or Gemini Flash) classifies the use against the license. Banned or unclear uses are held for the owner.

Metering and settlement: Generated seconds are counted per request and settled in USDC hourly in batches, with the batch hash onchain and the per request log offchain.

Revocation: The owner's revoke transaction flips the license status. The API checks status before every generation, so new audio stops within seconds. Past audio stays out there; a watermark lets the owner prove its origin.

Watermark and listening: Audio carries an inaudible watermark. A weekly job samples clips for the owner's Sunday listen and scans public uploads for unlicensed matches.

4.Cost per use and pricing

TTS generation from hosted providers typically costs from a few cents to around 20 cents per minute depending on provider and plan, so the price per minute must sit above that. Policy checks on a small model cost a fraction of a cent per script. Hourly settlement on Base is usually well under a cent per batch. Example month for one voice with 3,000 generated minutes: roughly $150 to $300 TTS paid by licensees on top of the owner's rate, about $2 policy checks, about $1 gas.

Voice 10% of license income

List one voice, set uses and price, live meter, revoke switch and Sunday listen.

Studio $29 a month + 5%

Several voices for an agency or radio station, per licensee approvals and monthly statements.

Licensee Usage based

Apps pay the owner's per minute rate plus generation cost, with a policy gate and consent receipts.

5.Growth loop

Voice owners share their license page with listeners and producers. Each licensee app credits the voice and links back, bringing more voices. Radio stations and narrator agencies onboard rosters at once.

6.Risks and guardrails

Cloning outside the app: Anyone can still clone a voice from public recordings with other tools. The license proves consent where it exists; it cannot stop all misuse. Say so clearly.

Revocation limits: Revoking stops new audio, it does not delete files already generated. Contracts with licensees should require removal on revoke, and the watermark helps prove origin.

Legal and right of publicity: Voice rights differ by country. Use clear terms, record the owner's identity check, and avoid political, medical and financial advice uses by default.

Policy gate misses: Classifiers miss disguised uses, especially across languages. Hold first uses from new licensees for owner review and keep the human listening habit.

Identity fraud: Someone could list a voice that is not theirs. Require a live recorded consent phrase and a matching identity check before a license goes live.

7.Build order

Consent license contract with uses, price and cap on Base
Owner onboarding with recorded consent phrase
Licensee API with status check before every generation
Policy gate with hold for review
Metering and hourly USDC settlement
Revoke switch and Sunday listen

8.Where this is going

Now
One radio host licenses her voice to a few apps by the minute and can switch it off.
Next
Agencies and stations manage rosters, with watermark scans for unlicensed copies.
Later
The same consent license covers face, style and likeness, readable by any AI app before it generates.
The world it builds
A default where using someone's voice means asking first, paying fairly and stopping when they say stop.

Costs and tools are estimates at the time of writing. General information only, not legal or financial advice.

OWNER PLAYBOOK

Own it, then chart your voyage

Nine routes from one vessel. Tap a port to open its chart.

Why own Voice Lease

Voice Lease lets a person license their voice to AI apps by the minute, with consent recorded onchain and a switch that revokes it at any time. On a voice marketplace, the platform sets your rate, holds the consent record and decides who can use you. Own it, and the consent contract, the metering, the payouts and the list of licensees all sit under your wallet and your name, whether you lease your own voice or run a roster of voices.

What’s stopping you?

“What if someone misuses my voice anyway?”

A license and consent record make misuse traceable and give you a clear legal position, but they cannot stop every bad actor from cloning audio found elsewhere. Be honest about that. Voice Lease is about controlled, paid use by apps that want to stay on the right side of consent.

“Is licensing a voice legal where I live?”

Voice and likeness rights differ by country and state. Many places protect them, some explicitly cover AI. Before you license other people's voices, get a local lawyer to review your license terms.

“I can't code.”

The consent contract, metered billing, revocation switch and licensee dashboard come built. You record samples, set a rate and approve licensees.

“Will any app actually pay per minute?”

Some podcast, audiobook, game and accessibility apps prefer licensed voices to avoid legal risk. Volume will start small. Go after small studios first, not big platforms.

“Is it really mine?”

Yes. Contracts deploy from your wallet on Base, Polygon or a Story compatible EVM chain, and payments go to your address.

The million-dollar ladder

Per minute fees from licensees for generated audio, with you taking a platform share if you host other voices, plus monthly plans for studios that want a roster. This is a target, not a promise.

$100

$4,000

$30,000

$85,000

First 10 users

2 licensees using 1,000 minutes a month

$0.10 per minute

Small roster

20 voices, 40,000 minutes a month

$0.10 per minute platform share

Studio plans

150,000 minutes plus 15 studios