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The Third Artifact

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The Third Artifact

By: David Collins
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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This title uses virtual voice narration

Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.

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An ancient derelict yields some unexpected small surprises, and the crew acquires some unusual new crew members.

Mee Keralatazaku, the rather troublesome ruler of the planet Kanpripticon, has them take her to a very strange and secretive location.

When they return, all hell breaks loose as the Kipitz try to kill Mee Keralatazaku and everyone else on Kanpripticon.

She, who must not be annoyed, is now very, very angry.
Adventure Humorous Science Fiction
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the author acknowledges AI voice but it sounds like an AI was used to put the story together as well.

interesting thought experiment

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It took awhile to develop the characters, but it is getting interesting. I am enjoying the story.

Gets better!

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The book may have been good but couldn’t get past the poor narration. Two words

Virtual voice terrible

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I've listened to all these in the series and find the computer narration quite acceptable. It's much better than some of the human narrators, though some pauses and words with multiple pronunciations depending on context do get mixed up, it's paced just fun and enunciated clearly so failing ears can understand it perfectly fine. The story itself is a believable fun world with lots of laughs and expanding story options. I look forward to more in this series and am now listening to other titles from this author and enjoying them as well!

Engaging and entertaining. Narration not bad

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Computer voice ruins it. The inflection is terrible. DNF. Would be better with no inflection.

Bad Artificial Narration

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story felt AI generated and rambling and the virtual voice is just so bad. The virtual voice experiment feels like it should stop.

Felt AI generated and virtual voice is just bad.

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