Paul Aiken of the Authors Guild warned last week that Amazon’s new Kindle 2’s voice function was likely to violate writers’ copyrights. The guild says authors should be awarded audio-licensing fees for these e-books, stressing that audio books licenses is a $1 billion market.

The fuss is about a function on new Amazon’s reader that permits a user to enable a robotron-like voice to read a book aloud. This function aka 'text-to-speech’ is expected to improve in years to come and to possibly undermine the audio book market.

From a legal point of view they assert that the synthetized voice reading the book is a derivative work that requires [...]

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