Setting Captives Free

Weight Loss Bootcamp

De: Mike Cleveland

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Our culture today is saturated with weight loss programs and diets. And yet, obesity is at an all-time high. How is it that we can have so much information yet not experience lasting transformation? The Setting Captives Free Weight Loss Bootcamp study presents the answer to this question and the gospel solution to losing weight. The principles in this study will show how it is possible to live a life without diets, to lose weight, and to keep it off permanently, all while enjoying the change of heart that comes through Christ.

Virtual Voice should not cost something

I listened to the sample before purchasing the book, and the virtual voice sounded okay, but when I started listening to the book as a whole, it was substantially inferior to a regular narrator. I am disappointed that Audible only has this available for purchase by money or credit - if it was available as part of Audible's subscription library, then maybe that would be understandable. But even at $6, it's not worth the price.

Problems with the virtual voice include:
- Reading footnote numbers interrupts the flow of the narration.
- Lack of enthusiasm and emphasis on what a human narrator would emphasize makes the whole thing seem rather plain and flat.
- Simple weird things like saying "underscore" instead of "blank" or reading out an entire URL where a human would've only read the crucial parts were jarring.

I listen to things read by computer voices all the time - usually with PDFs on Edge - so I'm used to things being a little weird. But that is free. The virtual voice that was used for this audiobook did not deserve the cost.

As for the content of the book itself, I think that it was good - at least the parts I listened to. The author continually goes back to Scripture, which I very much appreciate - it's not a "self help" book with a shallow basis. I didn't get very far in, because of the voice - maybe an hour or so. However, the book is definitely more of a workbook, so formatting it for an audiobook requires extra care than a normal book, and that wasn't done in this case.