Keller in Dallas

a Keller short story

De: Lawrence Block

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

This novella continues the story of Keller, after the wistful stamp-collecting hit man retired in New Orleans at the end of Hit & Run. A phone call and an economic downturn is all it takes to put him back in business.Keller in Dallas, a Kindle bestseller, serves too as the opening episode of Lawrence Block's brand-new bestseller, Hit Me.

Poor performance

The story is fine. The ai generated narration was abysmal. The voice was inconsistent with previous Keller stories. He regularly emphasized the wrong syllable in words and did not change the emphasis of words in sentences. Doesn't anyone check these things? You're Audible and I expect much better.

AI narration makes the story unlistenable

Lawrence block is a tremendous author, but robot narration robs all of his characters of their depth and color, and blocks lyrical dialogue is left wooden and flat. Odd pronunciations, outright mispronunciations, and syntactical glitches make it unlistenable. If AI narration turns out to be the way Audible is going, I will cancel my membership without a second thought.

what a shame

Block's book are great but I could not listen to the fake voice.
Please stop with this virtual cup. Cheap for audible but cheap is not what matters.
I would rather pay more than have the audiobook world destroyed for your profit margin.
I would rather listen to a poor narrator than a fake one.

A more sophisticated vocal transcription would help!

The story—as usual—was addicting! And the writing . Serviceable — but there are better transcription capabilities available.

The voice the performance and tone.

I love the Keller story’s is the only reason I finished this short. The narrator sucked so bad in all aspects!

Please don’t use virtual voice

Keller stories are great but the virtual voice is awful
I will never listen to another

Terrible AI narrator

The story was a good Block / Keller story. Enjoyable, succinct and great dialogue. But the narration was terrible. I almost turned it off after the first sentence.

Technology at its WORST

AI cannot narrate a story. No emotion. No difference in voices. This was absolutely god awful and I will never again listen to a AI piece of crap.

flat stanley

seriously?? what a disservice to one of our most entertaining mystery writers. Mr. robotics is such a disappointing entity. unplug this one, and put him on inactive status.

AI narration is terrible

Always love some Keller! But I can’t believe Block Pop allowed the AI narration. It’s terrible!