{"podcast":{"title":"New Media Show w/Rob Greenlee","slug":"new-media-show-w-rob-greenlee-7521939","podcast_index_feed_id":7521939,"rss_url":"https://blurt.media/feeds/videos.xml?videoChannelId=1460","website_url":"https://blurt.media/c/newmediashow/videos","image_url":"https://blurt.media/lazy-static/avatars/0a5111bb-b217-42fb-8261-38db3c446718.png","author":"Rob Greenlee","episode_count":20,"summary":"Rob Greenlee is a well-known 18+ year evangelist of the podcasting industry, current board member, former Chairperson of The Podcast Academy (ThePodcastAcademy.com), and Podcast Hall of Fame Inductee (PodcastHOF.com) in 2017. His career currently continue","last_synced_at":"2026-10-03T00:17:23.363254+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-media-show-w-rob-greenlee-7521939"},"episode":{"title":"Own Your Identity: Who Controls Your Voice, and Likeness? | Anne Kavanagh, Royall.ai #684","slug":"own-your-identity-who-controls-your-voice-and-likeness-anne-kavanagh-royall-ai-684","published_at":"2026-08-31T00:39:33+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-media-show-w-rob-greenlee-7521939/own-your-identity-who-controls-your-voice-and-likeness-anne-kavanagh-royall-ai-684","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-media-show-w-rob-greenlee-7521939","url":"https://blurt.media/w/knqkgsPmuqXuJtDpcxPhNu","audio_url":"https://blurt.media/plugins/peerhub/router/podcast/9cdb3fbb-3205-4e40-b154-f3b9ef832830/audio.mp3","summary":"![New Media Show with Podcast Hall of Famer Rob Greenlee and Guest: Anne Kavanagh, co-founder of Royall.ai, a company working on verified identity, authorization, and licensing pathways for a person’s face, voice, name, and likeness. ](https://newmediashow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/NMS-684-PodcastArt-Anne-250-x-250-px.png)**AI can now reproduce a person’s face, voice, movement, and likeness with increasing realism.** The **bigger question** **is becoming:** **Who gets to control that identity, authorize its use, and potentially get paid when it has commercial value?** In **Episode #684 of the [New Media Show](https://newmediashow.com)**, **Host [Rob Greenlee](https://robgreenlee.com) talks** with **[Anne Kavanagh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/akavanagh/), co-founder of [Royall.ai](https://royall.ai/)**, about building a new permission and licensing layer around human identity. > _**The conversation is not about stopping or being anti-AI. It is about establishing something that has largely been missing: proof and authorization before use.**_ **Your Identity Becomes an Asset You Control** > _**Royall.ai is developing what Anne describes as a biometric vault where people can register elements of their identity, including voice, face, likeness, and body motion.**_ > > _**Those assets can be fingerprinted and watermarked, creating the foundation for detecting use, approving or rejecting it, and potentially licensing it commercially.**_ > > _**That changes the discussion from simply asking whether AI can clone someone to asking whether the person actually gave permission.**_ **A creator could potentially say:** * Use my voice for this campaign, but only for six months. * Allow my likeness to be used to train this model, but pay me. * Do not use my identity for this purpo…","meta_description":"![New Media Show with Podcast Hall of Famer Rob Greenlee and Guest: Anne Kavanagh, co-founder of Royall.ai, a company working on verified identity, author…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4299,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-media-show-w-rob-greenlee-7521939/episodes/own-your-identity-who-controls-your-voice-and-likeness-anne-kavanagh-royall-ai-684/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-media-show-w-rob-greenlee-7521939/own-your-identity-who-controls-your-voice-and-likeness-anne-kavanagh-royall-ai-684.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}