Reply to post: Hang on...

Audible hasn't even launched its AI-powered book subtitles and publishers have already fired off a sueball

DrXym

Hang on...

Since I don't use Audible I don't know what content they provide so perhaps they also offer performances, blogs, streamcasts or whatnot.

But why would a deaf person want closed captions for an audio version of a normal print book? Why can't they just read the book? I would have thought the experience is far superior than a machine translated (i.e. garbled) transcription of a condensed audio book.

Or perhaps this is a red herring and audible and trying to put search functions into their books or similar and the publishers are a bit odd about that.

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