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@@heidiherrin9898 Agree and a Scottish reader would’ve been good because the detective is from Scotland in the storyline I hope the channel can get the second book. It picks up a month or two after the ending of the first one.
I am in awe of how good the intonations and speech rhythms are - to the extent that most of the odd pronunciations slide right by me as I mentally complete what I am hearing. Chapeau, as the cyclists say
I wasn’t going to say anything but crit ear eon (criterion), amp he tem ens (amphetamines)? I’m really enjoying this book and the characters but so much appreciate when there’s a human narrator. It’s my choice to listen though so please keep the books coming regardless. Cheers
@@paulgmelch1402because each AI character would have to be edited in and that takes time and technical expertise. Be thankful for free audiobooks. At least it’s not Librovox.
😊 READ FIRST😊 This is a wonderfully written detective story. The ending surprises some but a constant reader sees Segway to a sequel. Now...the narration. It's AI suffering from Tourettes. If you can look past this and let the story flow in your mind, you will find this worth the listen. Also...there's not too many ads.
Not my usual genre but enjoying the book so far. A few ai slip ups that make me smile but does not detract from the story. Ty for the post and your channel.
Nice English police procedural featuring women protagonists. Wonder if author had police background. Good pace. Nice sounding English reader. Well done.
Thanks for the book upload. Can you add the sequel “Two Faced”? The ending of this book feels very incomplete. I assume the narration is AI generated because the pronunciation of common words are off. Appreciate the upload anyway.
I appreciate the upload, but I don't like the ending of the book. I'm a sucker for happy ending, or at least a hopeful ending, when reading fiction for pleasure. I found the ending of this book to be depressing. I do thank you for the making the book available.
This was a free audiobook, which was quite enjoyable, so please don't interpret my comments as complaints - but while I'm not complaining, I'm nonetheless interested in how the narration was done. By and large, it is very good - especially as I believe it was done by a robot. They are getting so good now that a lot of the intonation is spot-on, iincluding in places where I would have expected a robot to get it wrong through not understanding what it was reading. I'll give an example : A: "Here is the door - but it's locked. Nobody can get through" B: "I can" (Emphasis on "I" because it is in contrast with "nobody") - "Nobody can" - "but I can" A: "Here is the door - but it's locked. You can't get through" B: "I can!" (Emphasis on "can" because it contrasts with "can't") - "You can't" - "oh yes I can!" This is the kind of (trivial) thing that robotic readers can easily get wrong, because they read words - they don't understand the meaning of what is being said. But apart from that, the reader of this story pronounced lots and lots of words in a way that no native English speaker would - whether British or American. A couple of examples that I found by re-listening to about 10 minutes of it: At 8:45:32 - "even if she were conscious which she is not her *_jawer_* is broken" Jawer? But if you click "Show Transcript", that's how it is spelled - so the robotic reader was just reading what was written. The reading would also be improved by better punctuation of the transcript - though it frequently puts punctuation in where the script is missing it, so although it's not perfect, it's pretty bloody wizzard! Carrying on at 8:45:36 - "recover" is pronounced reek-over, so that "over" sounds like a separate word. At 8:45:47 - "God, he was tirried" instead of "tired" - but there again, it was misspelled in the source text (source : "tiied") Many, many times, past tenses ending in "-ed" had the "ed" pronounced as a separate syllable. One example is at 8:55:37 - "where the corridors crossed" - pronounced "cross--ed" Listen to 8:57:17 for the next 20 seconds or so - after "Rain obscured the horizon" No English-speaking human reader would get those words wrong. Then there are the sudden loud noises that happen ever few minutes, which are quite distracting. There's one at 8:59:59 - " he had done what people do when they love (loud noise)" There was one place where the loud noise was so appropriate that I laughed out loud - though it spoiled the tension of the moment. Still, as I said - I'm not complaining - just taking an interest. Robotic readers are getting so good now that they can hardly be distinguished from human ones - and I'm sure they are a lot cheaper.
This was a really good read, though the strange dying animal sounds can go. Closest thing to describing it is like a scratch on a record only the sound like an animal of several sorts. Other than that AI is getting better. I usually skip books that have AI narration. 😊 P.S. Who is the Author and is there a part 2?
Fabulous story, shame about the all the mispronunciation due to the “Text to Speech” software. Maybe more proofreading (listening) required . Still a very good story though. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
1st oh this sounds good I googled the writer and he or she only has 2 books in The second is called two faced sounds good I hope you can upload it By the way has audible released the 6th c g cooper book in the corps justice series to you guys yet…?
it seems that automatic narration software has improved significantly. to the point that barring the consistent suffixes misreading by the software it sounds very close to an actual person reading the book aloud.
I'm sorry I'm sorry AI I just can't do the AI reader the weird glitch and then the way that she pronounced breasts just did it for me, seems like a good story but I don't know if it was written by a human
Thanks for your feedback. Our 🤖 are still learning to speak human without the glitchy side effects. And yes, the book was written by a real life human 😊
It's hard to tell with female only reading, don't know if it's a man or woman. Sorry narrator if all the characters were women would be easier. I have to go back to figure out who is doing what. Get two narrator's for such a busy busy book.😮😮😮
Is this an AI voice or a real speaker? The reason I ask is because the voice is British but seems to mispronounce words. I suppose anyone could practice the voice even if they are not British. I know AI is taking over many industries and wonder if it has reached audiobooks yet.
Be nice! That’s difficult if one wants to be critical and this reading is begging for criticism. The pronunciations is 🤮 not human. And even if it did sound human I do not appreciate being tricked. The story so far was good but there are a lot of good stories that are told by humans. Quitting this one! A shame.
what an awful reader she says robin son instead of robinson the same with other words ,not an english speaker,very flat voice no intonation,very boring empty content
