Good Sir, thank you, thank you for exposing me to these powerful short stories from these great Russian authors for I have only known their novels. I am an atheist but listening to these stories stories I believe you are doing God’s work and now more than ever we need to hear that, don’t ask me to explain, I can’t. even at 56 I can’t figure this game out.
❤I’m 62 I understand this feeling.. my best days are spent listening to these stories. I send you love and lightness of heart❤️🩹not an easy thing in these difficult times.
Is this and other stories in this series narrated by AI? The expression (such as it is) is pretty so-so, and the stresses are much too often in the wrong place. Pronunciation is - shall we say - eccentric; as examples, the word "moreover" pronounced "mow-ree-over", and "plain" pronounced "pee-lain". The Russian, "korosho" should be pronounced "ka-rash-oh" (meaning, among other things "OK") with the stress on the last syllable, and "Ivan" is "Ee-van" stress on last syllable. Shame. Good stories mangled. Lousy use for AI (if there is ever a good use for it ...)
Well think about it, if I had an AI narrator, and classic stories for which I paid no royalties I too could sell advertising for them. These stories are a treat, and for that I thank you!
@@mikewalker8956 I have, and do read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and the like. But it's quite nice to have something read to me while I work in my studio. But I don't appreciate bad English or other pronunciation and expression. Just my opinion. You obviously have a different opinion, to which, of course, you are entitled.
@@Kitiwake Well I have listened to a half-dozen of these short stories and this is AI. This voice cannot distinguish between words like ``bow tie,'' ``hunting bow'' and ``take a bow.'' It pronounces all ``bows'' as in, ``take two bows.'' Confidently flowing on in the exact same cadence, never catching itself in such simple mistakes.
Good Sir, thank you, thank you for exposing me to these powerful short stories from these great Russian authors for I have only known their novels. I am an atheist but listening to these stories stories I believe you are doing God’s work and now more than ever we need to hear that, don’t ask me to explain, I can’t. even at 56 I can’t figure this game out.
❤I’m 62 I understand this feeling.. my best days are spent listening to these stories. I send you love and lightness of heart❤️🩹not an easy thing in these difficult times.
I’ll be 70 this year, and the more I trust, and obey God, the better it gets.
@@kristenkrueger5527you would still get it. Good for you. You took care of yourself well.
Man. I am addicted to your videos !!! I have to listen to them every day
Thank you for this upload.
Great story! Not familiar with this piece by Tolstoy, but it was well worth listening to.
Thanks
May I request reading.of "war and peace".
Thank you
😮 Did Russia eliminate the TarTars and steal all their land?
... " SAME OLD SAME OLDSKI "… EH OLD BEAN 🏴
Is this and other stories in this series narrated by AI? The expression (such as it is) is pretty so-so, and the stresses are much too often in the wrong place. Pronunciation is - shall we say - eccentric; as examples, the word "moreover" pronounced "mow-ree-over", and "plain" pronounced "pee-lain". The Russian, "korosho" should be pronounced "ka-rash-oh" (meaning, among other things "OK") with the stress on the last syllable, and "Ivan" is "Ee-van" stress on last syllable. Shame. Good stories mangled. Lousy use for AI (if there is ever a good use for it ...)
I was wondering that too. This channel cranks out new narrations way too often not to, I suspect.
Yeah, 99% sure its AI.
Well think about it, if I had an AI narrator, and classic stories for which I paid no royalties I too could sell advertising for them. These stories are a treat, and for that I thank you!
Personally I appreciate exposure to literature like this. If you don’t want AI read it yourself.
@@mikewalker8956 I have, and do read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and the like. But it's quite nice to have something read to me while I work in my studio. But I don't appreciate bad English or other pronunciation and expression. Just my opinion. You obviously have a different opinion, to which, of course, you are entitled.
Is this AI-read? I like the stories, I don't think much of the reading, sometimes mispronouncing words, sometimes with weird parsing of sentences.
There are no mispronouncememts.
@@Kitiwake You are right, but there are mispronunciations - occasionally - and they catch my attention and interrupt the flow of the narrative for me.
@@Kitiwake Well I have listened to a half-dozen of these short stories and this is AI. This voice cannot distinguish between words like ``bow tie,'' ``hunting bow'' and ``take a bow.'' It pronounces all ``bows'' as in, ``take two bows.'' Confidently flowing on in the exact same cadence, never catching itself in such simple mistakes.
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