Deep Winter

By: Thomas Sherry

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

From a relatively normal American life to a survival situation in moments, this story follows the Drummond family as they learn to adapt to a now, very different community...and world. Beginning on a bitter cold January night, the story begins with a series of earthquakes tearing through the Pacific Northwest....and in the following days the family--and the nation--face challenges from unexpected sources....

Reader

The AI reading made this story difficult to listen. I was tempted to move on to another selection. The book may have been more enjoyable with a human reader.

the AI narration is terrible

the local focus with hints at global events was really grounding as someone who lives in the region

Very difficult listen

Listening to the virtual voice is difficult. I could not get into the story because the voice was so monotonous.

good story, virtual narrator needs work

I enjoyed the story, but the virtual narration on this title is not quite ready for prime time.

I recently listened to another book that also used the virtual narration, and it sounded fine, but this one had a lot of places where it was VERY obvious that it wasn't a human reading.

The biggest issues were with acronyms, foreign words, and similar things.

I got really tired of hearing, "Hon" (i.e. the short version of "Honey") sound like it was a Chinese name. It should've been pronounced "hun" but instead sounded like the first part of "Honda."

There were also some words that came out garbled.

That said, it was still a lot better than older-gen text-to- voice, and was mostly tolerable.

I wouldn't have paid money to buy this audio book however.

AI voice still needs some work

Overall, a very good story. The virtual voice takes getting used to, a bit to monotone and emotionless.