the weather here has been in the triple digits & rattlers have been coming out of the woodwork ( literally) 🐍🐍🐍.! at least they've been eating the mice and rats .🐀🐍 its a real horror show 🏚️🐍🥵🌿 thanks for the story , at any rate 😅 ian .!
Mr Gordon, a real talent. It's also been rather grey and damp here in N Wales 🏴 As it's St Swithens Day, my mum informed me that we're now in for forty days of rain, get the brolly ready 😂
well.. guess i'm never taking a bath again. or showering. or swimming. or doing any thing involving water. hope it's at least safe enough to drink the stuff. ; D
I'm all the more grateful for Horror Babble and Ian as AI voices become widespread. AI is the biggest horror on RU-vid right now, it's not getting better until we get legislation to identify these false voices stealing jobs from (human) story readers.
Respectfully, Trust me, nobody who would have hired a real narrator is using AI instead. Beside the fact that the vast majority of creators do their narration themselves… Any professional with a budget is hiring a voiceover person, you can hire them reasonably on Fiverr or any number of international creative freelance platforms. And people who aren’t professionals weren’t about to pay to hire someone anyway. AI voices sound unnatural, especially when reading anything besides ad copy. Nobody with a budget to pay takes them seriously as an option. Your own level of personal fear about AI as a destabilizing force in society is what your comment is actually about.
If you click on a YT video that claims ti be a free audio book, but it has an AI voice… that’s someone with no budget putting up a YT channel, which costs you literally nothing to listen to. Just skip it and listen to something else. If people want to enjoy great content made by great creators, they need to start paying those creators for their work. As it does cost money for creatives to survive. (I’m a creator myself.) This is why I always believe Patreon is an excellent idea, and even when i’m pinched financially i still keep a few lower-tier Patreon things going. It’s good karma.
@@sub-jec-tiv Perhaps unfortunately though these are the first generation AI voice synthesizers and they'll get better. Non them, (even now,) still sound like Stephen Hawking's old voice synthesizer anymore. I'm a huge fan of Librivox who put public domain books up free of charge and all of them are read by volunteers, some are fairly dreadful most a pretty good and few are absolutely brilliant.
Dear Ian, don't you find it is becoming more and more difficult to find new stories after having read so many outstanding Tales. That's why I love "Books of Cthulhu, vol. 1 and 2" There I found stories from new writers, I didn't know existed. So all the best from Holland in your search for new material. Roland.
Hi Roland! There's still plenty out there -- some as of yet undiscovered, and others unfortunately unavailable due to copyright restrictions (for now). As Tam has said above though, new stories are always being written!
@@HorrorBabble That is great to hear. I hope we will soon be listening to some of those new unknown writers and their stories. And thanks for your reaction. All the best from you know where....😉
Wonderful story Ian, i really enjoy Rainman! Would you, or have you considered readind the 3x Science Fiction Stories by C.S. Lewis? Beginning with "Out of the Silent Planet", continuing with "Paralandra", and culminating with "That Hideous Strength". I dont know if they're out of copyright or not, but all three are wonderful stories!
Cue Synchronicity II. We're currently experiencing the same kind of weather in the far South East of Australia. Thank you Ian. "Many miles away. Something crawls to the surface, from the bottom of a dark, Socttish Loch. Many miles away..." 🌧🌨🌧 👍
What a great story! Ian,you are such a good narrator that i forget what a great an author you are. This was very atmospheric,took me from hot and dry Colorado to wet and cold Scotland. Excellent story.
I have to say I am super excited to listen. I love that Ian is both a very skilled horror author AND an amazing reader! Thank you so much for creating this for us 💚
Is there a possible connection to the most recent Van Melsen story, vis-a-vis water people? Or maybe I'm looking too deep and can't see the rainfall for the drops...
You need a wee bit of help with your Scots there, and your character wouldn't last long in those parts referring to whiskies as 'scotch', as if they were all the same, but the story is good. Perhaps the real reason the watery apparition came for him was to seek justice for the uisge beatha. ;)
He’s just a no-clue cop from south of the border trying to work things out - I skipped the Scottish accent this time though! His knowledge of whiskey is akin to my own of course…!
