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Dan Koontz

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- maud boleman
- 11-11-24
voice too mechanical.
I liked the story was good but the voice was too distracting. I’m not a fan of AI readings.
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- Suzanne Beacroft
- 11-24-24
Great story Terrible reader
Great story but oh so poorly read! Virtual voice is monotone with no nuance , feeling or zing to the story. Very distracting and makes the story confusing. Get a human reader please!
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- E. L. Kephart
- 08-18-24
This is a story with a new twist! Our greatest advancements can indeed lead to our greatest evils.
Congratulations Dan Koontz. What a great first book! I am looking forward to your future novels. The virtual voice presentation is acceptable and the quality of this technology will surely flourish.
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- mo
- 12-20-24
What a story!!
This was such a well written with great characters, interesting story! Could not turn off!!
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- Stacy Desmond
- 05-01-25
the concept
I fully enjoyed the story. the narration left just a little to be desired as some words do not "translate" to ai.
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- WoodenBling
- 12-15-24
I thought it was Dean
I was pleasantly surprised! I like it a lot. When I ordered this audio I thought it was Dean Knootz (I bet he gets that a lot) so it was good that I did like it. I however didn’t care for the unemotional reading from the IP.
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- J. Rhan
- 02-04-25
AI voice is not ready
Story starts slow for a Koontz novel. The generated audio was not great. Poor inflections. No changes in speech for various characters. Not one of Koontz’ best. Likely will not pick up another generated reader.
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- MollyMcShane
- 09-05-24
The IPO
I personally thought this was one of the best Koontz novels I've listened to. Why it was left to AI narration boggles my mind! I could picture this happening today in reality. I listened to it with only a couple of breaks, not willing to put it down!
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- Rick Zalewski
- 03-30-24
AI is not for me...yet
AI should be able to change voices, and follow human feelings...not yet my friend. Although they are doing well with inflection they need to develop feelings. The true love of books is getting lost in the story to a point of becoming abystander in the plot... No someone who has to try to analyze and dissect what is going on... I will pass for a while.
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- Kathy B
- 07-18-24
Virtual Voice Sucks
I'm only a couple hours in, and I hate the virtual voice beyond all reason. Boring, intonation of a terrible actor, and some unbelievable mispronounciations. Did anyone, including the author, actually listen to the entire book? Understandable, if not, cuz I can barely keep my eyes open at this voice. Here's my favorite: in a section describing a father-son competition, The VV pronounces that (and I'll spell this phonetically) a "FAthersen"--as in Pattersen (one word run together with the emphasis on FA). Does Audible (or whoever) think we're too stupid to catch it? Dan Koontz, if you're reading this, it's a good story. Enough that I keep trying to listen to it in chunks. The voice is too awful to allow for listening for long. You should demand they at least redo the worst of it. There were other awful mispronounciations but I was driving so couldn't note them anywhere. The word 'covertly' comes to mind as well.
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