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Deep Winter

By: Thomas Sherry
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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Publisher's summary

From a relatively normal American life to a survival situation in moments, this story follows the Drummond family as they learn to adapt to a now, very different community...and world. Beginning on a bitter cold January night, the story begins with a series of earthquakes tearing through the Pacific Northwest....and in the following days the family--and the nation--face challenges from unexpected sources....

This title uses virtual voice narration

Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.
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Very difficult listen

Listening to the virtual voice is difficult. I could not get into the story because the voice was so monotonous.

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Superb story telling!

This is one of my favorite books of all times. Definitely worth a listen if you are a fan of dystopian fiction.

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One of the best books I’ve listened to in a while!

I really enjoyed the story and characters. It’s educational and entertaining. And a few years ahead of its time!

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AI voice still needs some work

Overall, a very good story. The virtual voice takes getting used to, a bit to monotone and emotionless.

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good story, virtual narrator needs work

I enjoyed the story, but the virtual narration on this title is not quite ready for prime time.

I recently listened to another book that also used the virtual narration, and it sounded fine, but this one had a lot of places where it was VERY obvious that it wasn't a human reading.

The biggest issues were with acronyms, foreign words, and similar things.

I got really tired of hearing, "Hon" (i.e. the short version of "Honey") sound like it was a Chinese name. It should've been pronounced "hun" but instead sounded like the first part of "Honda."

There were also some words that came out garbled.

That said, it was still a lot better than older-gen text-to- voice, and was mostly tolerable.

I wouldn't have paid money to buy this audio book however.

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Right wing propaganda

Too much for me, but I did listen. Some ideas are good,, robot voice is unsteady in sound and cadence

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Absolutely horrible to listen to AI is monotone

The Ai blows goats it's horrible to listen to. This story may have been good if a actual person read it so it don't sound so dead and monotone

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