309

De: Michael Shotter

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Meet Lisa Hudson, a dedicated journalism student, on a beautiful, spring morning in Pittsburgh that proves to be the last ordinary day of her life. As she struggles to survive in a new reality, forged from catastrophe, Lisa confronts its mysteries and dangers with the aid of intriguing and unlikely companions. For her, the world will never be the same. For you, the journey is just beginning. Michael Shotter is a lifelong resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a lover of science, fiction, and fantasy, his works aim to push beyond the boundaries of traditional genre fiction into new and exciting realms born from literary craftsmanship. "309" represents his most ambitious effort to date and is sure to thrill fans of both science fiction and high adventure.

Looking forward to more!

Amazing story from start to finish. Just when I thought I knew what was going to happen next, I was surprised by a new twist. I'm looking forward to reading more from Michael Shotter
The AI reader was very good, though there were a couple times that a word was mispronounced. This is the main reason I've given the performance a 4.

Bought it for the 'burgh elements and enjoyed -- A

I enjoyed the story and all the quirks. Since it started as a burgh thing I enjoyed driving through the parts the burgh I knew and followed all the way to east livervppmol Ohio. Story was well worth the read and unfortunately because Virtual Voice needs a review I am short changing mr Shotter's truly entertaining work of space opera on earth.

I used to try and listen to LibreVox audiobooks but really could not handle the choppy computer voice. 309 was read by Virtual Voice. A very pleasant female voice that did surprisingly well overall. If I hadn't known it was virtual I wouldd have picked it up daily quickly d/t see . One benefit I heard was the intense moments are more low key that is there were a human voice actor - I do get tired of screechy voiced in my head. There were some words that were tripped over or verbalized much differently than a human native English speaker.. sound quality varies by section - I;d be moving along at one volume then there was a cut and the volume went up 5 points for no apparent reason.

I would be happy to listen to outhe books voiced by virtual voice but only if there is a pool created to provide some nature of payment to the usual cadre of voice actors who could not get the gig because of the computer generated voice is doing a job they used to do with emotion and aplomb who mow are fighting for fewer and fewer story telling gigs!.

I Think I’ll Try To Read It Myself

I kept coming back to it because I liked the story. Then the narration would put me off. If you keep going, you can maybe adjust a little but I couldn’t.
Xenophobia aside, this other species has not quite picked up the language. Or possibly she just needs a few more cycles or allocation or whatever expensive thing makes an AI smarter.
It may be great that these books get the chance to be read.
However, this book may be good, maybe not, I can’t tell, and that fact probably doesn’t serve the author.

If this is the future of audio books, forget it!

This is the first and only book I have listened to with AI generated narration. It was like listening to a 3rd grader who has just learned how to read. No inflection, no emphasis on words or phrases, No excitement. Nothing. Imagine SIRI reading search results for 13 hours.

It's a shame because the story has merit. I would have enjoyed it much more with a traditional narration.