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Hard Luck Hank: Early Years

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Hard Luck Hank: Early Years

By: Steven Campbell
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 Collection of short stories featuring Hard Luck Hank and his early days on Belvaille. Print Length: 63 pages Includes: -Why Hank came to Belvaille -Hank's first job -Where Hank got his plasma pistol -Hank's first murder -Introduction of glocken -Where the Gentleman's Club and Athletic Club came from -Hank's first love -How and why Belvaille changed and became what it is today NOTE: while the stories are stand-alone, it contains many references to characters and events in Hard Luck Hank novels. Adventure Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Virtual voice is awful. It pulls you out of the story and makes it hard to follow. The mispronunciation of names is painful.

The awful narrator.

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the computer voice didn't get some of the pronunciation even close particularly the names

rounds out the character quite a bit

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The stories were fine. The "virtual voice" they used is terrible. Inflections are off, it pronounced things weird, it was monotone and the no emphasis on anythis so it made it so hard to follow. Just a monotone drone. What's worst of all is it's missing the soul and voice of Liam Owen.

If this is the future of audiobooks, we might as well end our subscriptions now.

AI Virtual Voice is terrible don't bother listening

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As per usual, Campbell wrote a great story. That being said, all the charm of Hank and this unique world is lost due to a virtual voiceover. It's pretty good for what it is, sounds a lot more human than most, but there's no emotion. It mispronounces things here and there as well, but what most bothers me is the lack of soul in the delivery. Unfortunately, I will probably refrain from listening to any more stories in the Hank universe unless they are voiced by Liam, the original guy 

I don't like AI voiceover

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human narrator really added a lot. I buy the hard luck Hank series for that narrator!!

really miss the human narrator

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The story is of usual high quality but the narration is so flat it really hurt it. Bring the humans back please

Virtual voice could tank this series

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Virtual voice pronunciations inconsistent with the rest of Hard Luck Hank series, otherwise interesting stories

Mediocre

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These are background stories of Hank. I liked it overall, but I was impressed and disappointed with the narration. The articulation was good. It's better even than a lot of narrators. However, it ultimately failed to pass the humor to the reader. This example would work for class subjects. It was free for subscribers, so I am not unhappy.

AI narration lacks soul

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Ok short story about Hanks early years but the AI reading is poor. No inflection of voices and several improper pronunciations of names. This AI is not ready for prime time.

Good Story. Crappy AI reader.

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it was torture to hear the robotic voice. it list the spirit and I missed the voices of the characters

Where is Hank?

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