Hard Luck Hank: Early Years

By: Steven Campbell

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

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.

The awful narrator.

Virtual voice is awful. It pulls you out of the story and makes it hard to follow. The mispronunciation of names is painful.

AI Virtual Voice is terrible don't bother listening

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.

I don't like AI voiceover

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 

really miss the human narrator

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

Virtual voice could tank this series

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

Mediocre

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

AI narration lacks soul

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.

Good Story. Crappy AI reader.

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.

Where is Hank?

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

do not listen to this! AI voice sucks!

PAY VOICE ACTORS!!! Don't listen to books using this synthesized voice. AI voice is a scam trying to drive the prices of actual workers down to unsustainable levels.
story is good, do not download! demand better!