A Sorcerer's Rings

De: Guy Antibes

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Fleeing for his life, Ricky Valian heads to Duteria, home of an institute of sorcery. With the help of his two servants, Ricky must learn the basic sorcery that he hadn’t needed before. His studies take him out of Duteria and into new perils as he discovers an insidious plot to disrupt all the governments of his world. FANTASY: Young Adult/Coming of Age/Sword & Sorcery

I guess I am addicted

If you can get past the narration and names that to closely resemble each other. Listen to it. I like this writer but I think reading this would be so much better. I may be getting used to this terrible AI I don’t know. I may not be able to understand what real people sound like after this lol. Seriously I do like the story . It is getting to that series point where there is a ton of characters and without the natural inflection of a real reader can get hard to differentiate. Still continuing… on to the next… please tell me this will not be the future of book reading. No thank you SIRI

Great 5 book series, Do not like Virtual Voice.

Guy Antibes is a great author - inventive story lines and he develops the characters well. Love his writing and have enjoyed his other series on Audible. Glad this one was complete, unlike the other that is missing the last two books.

Virtual Voice (VV) is a bit of a pain to get thru. Multiple problems that distract from the story and seem easily fixed if anyone really cared to create a stellar product:
- Gives the exact same voice through out the presentation. Really? Easy to program a change in pitch, pronunciation and accent for the various characters. Why wasn't this done? Is it more costly to get a better trained AI?
- VV can't get the difference between present and past tense Read and other verbs/nouns.
- VV appears to be confused by commas, treating them as periods, giving a long pause instead of a normal break to the sentence.
- VV often puts the wrong emphasis on the wrong syllable making the listener work it out for themselves.
- VV shows no excitement or change of emotion for ANY part of the book. The characters are fighting a duel - same voice. The characters are having a tender moment - same voice. Etc.

Until VV becomes more "trained" and "intuitive" I will not be listening to any more VV books.

I greatly appreciate the actors/readers who actually do the work and put their hearts into their presentation. I see no reason to keep them from having a job that they are so very well suited for.