LRRP (Provisional) 2nd Bde 4th Infantry Division Vietnam 1966-67

By: Frank Camper

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

True story of the 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division's small, ragtag "provisional" long range patrol platoon that was so effective it became the official model for 1st and 2nd Field Force MACV LRRP's covering the whole country, authorized by General Westmoreland. The 2nd Brigade LRRP's made history.

Great story - bad read by AI

Amazing first person retelling of their time in country. You can almost imagine being in his skin. Unfortunately the virtual voice was a horrible choice. It took away from the overall experience.

excellent, no frills description of actual military events

I liked everything about the actual book, well-written, clean prose, very detailed, incredibly engage and propulsive.

I dislike the virtual voice narration because it is incapable of many basic speaking skills. It struggled with the numerical names of military groups, made weird pauses after every period -- even the ones in military titles like Lt. There were other smaller issues as well, but they didn't affect the comprehension of the content nearly as much.

Good book - poorly performed

Computer reading makes it sluggish with irritating mispronunciations. Not worth the effort with this type of book.

ai books should never exist

this is a great story but the choice to have it read by an AI voice was absolutely terrible.

Monotonous AI voice

It’s a good story, but the delivery by the artificial intelligence invoice is monotone and sleep-inducing and mispronunciation and inappropriate pauses are very distracting.

Republished this with the human reading it, and it will be much better

Horrible narration

The monotone AI takes away from the drama of the story. No emotional expression and mispronunciation makes the story boring.

Great stories

This was a very well written book. I enjoyed every minute of it. Great job

Narrator

I really dislike the virtual narration
It ruined the book for me. I will not get another book with virtual narration

This is an excellent book

Dont be put off by the clumsy title and "virtual voice" narration, if you are interested in lrrps or the Vietnam war in general, you'll love this book. Honestly the artificial voice acting is pretty impressive, outside of a few brief moments it sounds perfectly fine

Clearly describes life in an LRRP unit

I felt that this book gave a "good" description of life in an LRRP unit. Not great but nothing annoying about it, either.
I think that was due to the writing being a bit bland, not the story, per se.

Yes, it's narrated by Virtual Voice, but I was surprised how good VV was. I was very surprised how human and realistic it sounds. Again, it's not great and doesn't know when to give emotion or intonation, but it's not bad either. I can think of *certain human narrators* would I would love to see replaced by Virtual Voice. VV doesn't make the faux pas that you would expect (e.g. knowing which of the various ways to pronounce the word 'read') but you could tell when edits had been spliced in, so maybe they were corrections of such instances. Which is odd... why can we tell when they splice in a fix? Talking of odd things and realism, you can even hear when Virtual Voice turns the page! Hey... think about that...

So anyway, if you'd like to learn more about the LRRPs in Vietnam, this is definitely worth your time.