Audible is sharing details about a forthcoming initiative called Audible Captions, a new feature coming in September that will show listeners the text of a book as they listen. Calling it “captions” is rather misleading, perhaps intentionally, since they intend to “caption” the entire work. In other words, they will scroll a full ebook alongside the audiobook. But have no fear, this isn’t the actual text licensed from publishers and authors. They have gone to trouble of computer-generating a “transcription” from the audio file, “harnessing Amazon Web Services’ cloud computing infrastructure and artificial intelligence.” Audible subscribers and students will be […]
