Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature

Re:Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speec... by jrochkind1 on Monday August 26, 2019 @05:33PM (#20804022)

If you are deaf, you are really hoping that YouTube will add captions to everything, because that's the only way you know what is being said. It would "change everything" by giving deaf users access to youtube...

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Re:Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speec... by nickjj on Monday August 26, 2019 @06:33PM (#20804414)

It's more complicated than that.

Auto-generated captions (something I deal with on a regular basis as I do create video courses) tend to be horrendously bad in quality even on major platforms. Especially with tech content (even if you talk crystal clear).

Auto-generated captions that came out bad leaves both the reader wondering what "jean kids" means when you really said "jenkins" and it also de-values the content creator's brand because now you think "how did such crappy captions make their way into this video?".

Now with that said, I'm all for providing human created / vetted captions that are accurate, but that should be up to the content creator to decide.

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Re:Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speec... by jrochkind1 on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @09:05AM (#20809105)

It should be up to the content creator to decide if they want their content to be accessible to deaf people?

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Re:Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speec... by nickjj on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @05:57PM (#20814840)

It should be up to the content creator to decide which medium their content is released as.

The platform should never step in and create new content based off your copyright content in a format that you didn't explicitly release.

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