The Third Artifact

De: David Collins

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

An ancient derelict yields some unexpected small surprises, and the crew acquires some unusual new crew members.

Mee Keralatazaku, the rather troublesome ruler of the planet Kanpripticon, has them take her to a very strange and secretive location.

When they return, all hell breaks loose as the Kipitz try to kill Mee Keralatazaku and everyone else on Kanpripticon.

She, who must not be annoyed, is now very, very angry.

Great storyline.

Really enjoyed the story. I'm really entertained with the series and only have one complaint. That would be the voice. I don't mind that much but it bugs the heck out of my wife.

Gets better!

It took awhile to develop the characters, but it is getting interesting. I am enjoying the story.

AI VOICE

AI VOICE IS HORRIBLE. IT'S DISTRACTING. IT MISPRONOUNCES WORDS. IT'S DISJOINTED. JUST HORRIBLE. AND IT WANTS 15 WORDS TO POST.

Virtual voice terrible

The book may have been good but couldn’t get past the poor narration. Two words

interesting thought experiment

the author acknowledges AI voice but it sounds like an AI was used to put the story together as well.

Dangers of Unlimited Automation

We should not just use automation anywhere and everywhere that we possibly can. People need to be useful and the only benefit of using this voice-bot instead of a human narrator is to make greedy a-holes even wealthier, without consideration to how much it costs civilization as a whole.

Engaging and entertaining. Narration not bad

I've listened to all these in the series and find the computer narration quite acceptable. It's much better than some of the human narrators, though some pauses and words with multiple pronunciations depending on context do get mixed up, it's paced just fun and enunciated clearly so failing ears can understand it perfectly fine. The story itself is a believable fun world with lots of laughs and expanding story options. I look forward to more in this series and am now listening to other titles from this author and enjoying them as well!

an AI with sense

your AI reader ought to be assigned different tones for different people on the story.

Felt AI generated and virtual voice is just bad.

story felt AI generated and rambling and the virtual voice is just so bad. The virtual voice experiment feels like it should stop.

Bad Artificial Narration

Computer voice ruins it. The inflection is terrible. DNF. Would be better with no inflection.