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Having a person read out a book, then using AI to convert that back into the original book feels like a very convoluted way of getting the text. Is this just a licensing thing? Is it to get the timing right of the captions?

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How is having a book feed to you line by line (on a time you don't control) equivalent to "getting the text"? Also this surely can be considered a Usability feature for hearing impaired for example.

May be they are worried that this will lead to text leaking to public the minute it appears on such service... idk...

No, it's that since the text already exists (the written book), it seems overly complicated to transcribe what the voice actors are saying.

I think you have misunderstood. I am talking about Amazon getting the text.

The text for these books already exists, they're books that are being read out.

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