Don’t authors and publishers have the right to license audio rights to their books?

Authors and publishers have every right to control the rights to audio performances of their works that are for sale or broadcast. They do not have the right, however, to prevent an individual from having a book read aloud in the privacy of his or her home or office, whether the reading is done by human or machine. Parents have been reading to their children since the first children’s book was published, and the idea that this is now a violation of copyright is purely based on greed and avarice. There is no difference between a person or a machine reading aloud in private.