• The Transmuter's Daughter

  • By: Laurence Dahners
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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The Transmuter's Daughter

By: Laurence Dahners
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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A story in which little is as it seems.

Someone murdered Morgan Djai’s brilliant but estranged brother. When they killed him, he had a $10,000 chunk of platinum in the pocket of his jeans.

Morgan has problems of his own. His company’s been bought out, he’s been laid off, and his wife’s having an affair. Better yet, she’s planning to take everything he has in a divorce.

As Morgan tries to assume his duties as guardian for his brother’s teenage children he’s confronted with the mystery of why his brother died carrying a piece of platinum.
Morgan’s fifteen year old niece is striking in appearance but hostile in attitude. His nephew’s pleasant but defers all questions about the platinum to his sister.

It slowly becomes evident that Morgan’s brother made the platinum. People who wanted his secret killed him. His niece knows how Morgan’s brother created the platinum but doesn’t want to tell Morgan.
The people who killed his brother still want the platinum…

And it seems as if Morgan’s adopted son Adam is his only ally.
Damn…

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Nice science m/adventure plot ruined by bad narration

The narration was awful! No differentiation between characters, mispronunciations, awful acronyms. If this had been read by a human, I would expect them to be terminated for incompetence.

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Disappointed by Virtual Voice

I have looked forward to more books by Laurence Dahners coming to audio, but Virtual Voice dims the experience. The electronic voice is not unpleasant, but it provides no variation between characters and misses the emphasis in many sentences. I have heard worse from some human narration, but I was hoping for more than "not the worst".

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Please don't use the AI narrator again.

This was a fairly engaging story. Interesting ideas and plot. Hardly any Sci-Fi if that's what you were looking for. The AI narrator is absolutely dreadful.

Not really up to the standards I've expected from this author (who I usually love)

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Narration is understandable. Good story.

This is a good story. The Virtual Voice is much better than text to speech but a live voice actor is better. The p;f "Text to speech" mispronounces a lot of words ie. read pronounced "Reed" rather than "Red" or even IV (medical) pronounce "fourth" instead of "eye" "vee". Virtual voice almost eliminates this problem.

a good actor varies the tone and even the regional accent making the audio book much easier to follow. I approve the Virtual voice as it is better than text to speech for all of us visually impaired.

AI voice is coming along pretty fast. Pitch, tone, speed, even mood are now adjustable. This could be good. Certainly could get audio books out faster for the writers

I would much prefer a voice actor

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