Going to be pretty hard for a company that frequently touts the accuracy of its natural language processing to specify how this is materially different from tossing in a copy of the ebook for free (though as a consumer I'd like that) https://t.co/cToyZUwZ6Y

— Lucas Matney (@lucasmtny) August 23, 2019

Audible has released a statement regarding the copyright lawsuit the Big Five publishers (and Chronicle + Scholastic) field today in New York.

Says it disagrees that its Captions feature violate copyright. https://t.co/fNPwycNmBk pic.twitter.com/aVUJat2YIj

— Nick Statt (@nickstatt) August 23, 2019

Today's most utterly unsurprising legal suit.https://t.co/S4bGqRsS4u

— John Scalzi (@scalzi) August 23, 2019

The Big 5 are suing Audible/Amazon over that sneaky caption program on audiobooks that nobody was consulted about. https://t.co/0HqrTdNpf3

— David Gaughran ✍ (@DavidGaughran) August 23, 2019

As a hearing impaired audiobook user, I find this baffling. The rights to the audio content should include the actual words of the book: written or aural. It's BS that the rights are separable in the first place as demonstrated by the new technology.https://t.co/WcxMpe1AUC

— ＠c̲hris̲epps̲tein (@chriseppstein) August 23, 2019

GOOD. And I'm happy to see that Macmillan is involved in the filing as well!https://t.co/ipYlmF7I42

— Alyssa Palombo (@AlyssInWnderlnd) August 23, 2019

Amazon is making written text from audio recordings made from print text—ie, “books.” ? https://t.co/5GjGwFwYb3

— Karen Swallow Prior (@KSPrior) August 23, 2019

Yep, let's gohttps://t.co/3d18t2SnXR

— PRINT RUN (@printrunpodcast) August 23, 2019

Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature https://t.co/c0d5J02vLJ pic.twitter.com/yU1s9wXteL

— The Verge (@verge) August 23, 2019

Awooouu (wolf sound)https://t.co/KCDdaUmD5o

— Erik Hane (@erikhane) August 23, 2019

Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature https://t.co/mbgTxgJ3uT via ⁦@verge⁩

— Joanna Penn (@thecreativepenn) August 23, 2019