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The Vatican's Last Secret

By: Francis Joseph Smith
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Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.
Rated at 92% on Goodreads!!!
This book comes with a WARNING: once you start reading you will not be able to put it down!

***** "Brown, Patterson, Clancy, and now Smith!" Amazon Reviewer

In this fast-paced thriller, Hans Dieter is a well-known philanthropist with a dark past. From his deathbed, he has one last story to relay to his son, Jim Dieter (retired Navy SEAL) and his best friend, Dan Flaherty (ex-IRA). During the final days of WWII, senior Nazi party and Vatican officials committed the most brazen theft of all time.

A theft Hans Dieter played a principle part in.

A theft that for over 70 years, The Vatican has killed to keep its secret buried.

A deadly game of cat and mouse soon ensues involving The Vatican, MI-6, and Interpol, all hot on the trail of Jim and Dan as they race across Europe to uncover the mysteries of The Vatican's Last Secret.

The latest Jim Dieter novel "SECRETS FROM A FATHER's GRAVE" has been released! Genre Fiction Historical Military Thriller & Suspense War & Military Fiction Suspense
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I think the concept was there. I think it was poorly written.
And the AI voice does not help at all.

It was all right

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The computer generated narration was horrible. mispronounced words and absolutely no inflection or emotion. would love to hear it read by a live person!!

the story line is interesting

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AI narrator extremely mechanical- mispronunciations - ruined this audiobook. Storyline lacking depth and richness- some character background shallow.

Storyline lacking

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I really disliked the “AI” narrator. It mispronunciation words that it previously pronounced correctly. There was no emotion in the reading. The overall story was good which luckily kept me on the hook but it took me a long time to get through this book due to the terrible narration.

Good story, AWFUL narrator

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The computer narration was not as good as a person. The main character’s name was pronounced two different ways and was annoying as heck. Since a human was not narrating, there were not different voices for different characters. I could only hear 3 hours and I couldn’t finish.

Couldn’t Finish

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The AI narrator makes basic mistakes with words like rush and line. There is no long breaks between paragraphs, which in the book marks a story transition, especially with a story that goes back and forth in time. The monotone makes a thrilling story fall flat. This makes the story harder to follow.

AI narrator needs help

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Kept me interested throughout. I enjoyed the history references and I always find Vatican content interesting because perhaps there is some level of validity, who knows?

Interesting story line

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Worst narration ever. AI generated narration was awful and really took away from the story. Cadence, intonation, pronunciation all were off. I waned to stop listening almost from the beginning and wish I had. AI did a disservice to the author.

Worst narration

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