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Diamond Girl

By: Julie Mulhern
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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Publisher's summary

From USA Today bestselling author, Julie Mulhern, comes a short worthy of the Country Club Murders name. For Aggie DeLucci, former assistant private investigator and current housekeeper extraordinaire, 1975 is turning out to be a banner year. There’s a new man her life, Mac. He makes her laugh, takes her dancing, and makes a helluva salami sandwich. When Mac is accused of theft, it’s up to Aggie to clear his name. She’ll have to polish her slightly tarnished investigative kills and tame her fears (and her hair) to catch the real thief. If this is your first trip to 70s Kansas City, the entire series awaits you. Get ready to dive into THE DEEP END! - - - - - - - - - - - - - DIAMOND GIRL by Julie Mulhern A Henery Press Mystery Short

This title uses virtual voice narration

Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.
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Virtual voice is bad

What is the point of using virtual voice, it ruined the story and the experience.

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Lacking

The lack of inflection and monotone delivery leaves the listener with the impression of a grade school student reading aloud in class.
As a big fan of audio books, I place a great deal of importance on who is narrating.
I will not be purchasing any audiobooks with AI narration until it has been significantly improved

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Something Lost in the Translation??

Not sure how to rate this one! I’ve enjoyed all the other books in this series so far, but this one is a little different. The usual POV (Ellison Russell) is replaced by her housekeeper, Angie, so I guess that’s why we don’t get our usual wonderful narrator. Instead we get Virtual Voice (!), which becomes pretty amusing in its own right. I had to laugh at some of the translations and inaccurate inflections which, as I said, provided an additional layer of amusement to the story which was, actually, just okay after all!

However, I would recommend listening to this selection for the following reasons: it’s free with Audible Plus; it’s very short (less than an hour; and, it’s very entertaining, especially if you’ve never listened to a Virtual Voice narration! Check it out!! ☺️

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Great story!

The virtual narration sounded mechanical, with lack of inflection, which I had to apply. Distracting and annoying. Ruined what could and should have been an enjoyable read. Definitely not a fan of virtual narration!

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cannot get past virtual voice

Julie Mulhern is a great author whose stories need a live narrator! Audible, these virtual voice narrations are awful!

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Love the Story,

I love Julie Mulhern but with virtual voice it was not an enjoyable experience. The short story was really good, but if I see another one with virtual voice I'll pass.

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Love the story, narrator is too experimental.

The story is great and I love having it available on audio. The narrator being AI lacks human subtly. The narration is good enough to enjoy the story but I prefer Callie Beaulieu.

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The awful narration

I hated the ai reading the book this ruined the entire book. The story was as always entertaining but not with this narrator.

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The virtual voice is too stiff. Not enough emotion/inflection. Story was very good

I did not like the narrator. I’d rather have a live person reading the book.

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Why AI?!?!

Narrated by AI- absolutely horrible!!! Zero inflection and impossible to listen to and enjoy. Story is absolutely ruined

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