---
title: "Voice"
description: "a platform account or person that speaks for the brand, with its role and its code"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/voice
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Voice

a platform account or person that speaks for the brand, with its role and its code

[figure: Voice is a definition at brand scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | definition |
| scope | brand |
| key | the account or person and the brand |
| store | postgres |
| family | market |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `brand` | `id` | yes |  |
| `speaker` | `id` | yes | an account or a person |
| `role` | `one of own account \| staff \| founder \| paid voice on a code \| affiliate \| teacher \| advocate` | yes |  |
| `code` | `text` | no |  |
| `since` | `time` | yes |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns Voice directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.