Thank You, neuralSurfer; a good... "read". What I InJoyed about this Writer, Somerset Maugham and the story, 'A Man From Glasgow', was the Author's treatment o' "dialogue". In particular, the well illustrated care that the Characters use in Thier speech; Thier respect for the 'psychology' and 'appropriate for the times' social-etiquette that courtesy seems to require when responding to, or not responding verbally to, both Thier Own "inner-dialogue", or that 'nescessary' when speaking to anOther. ("You don' suppose I'm queer do You?" "No more or less than any Other, no.") What I found "timeless" in the story though, was how 'The Man From Glasgow' could somehow 'permit' HimSelf to impose on the chuckling, howlin', roaring with laughter, un-seen Man so. Even to the point of arming HimSelf and burglarising the private domain of the un-seen Man, with clearly murderous intent. Similar to the 'provocation' o' the Shopkeeper with the knife that We were introduced to at the start. 'The Man From Glasgow' HimSelf provides, perhaps, a clue; "By jove!" He says. Things haven't changed much in some People's minds. Some still insist upon initiating levels o' violence without what Aquinas in 'Just Law' calls "warranted", "just" cause. Or, with what "Natural LAW" (and pure logic) refers to as an appropriate response to real or perceived aggression. And..., invariably (ain' that just like Natural LAW; invariable!), the poe bastidges go stark, ravin' mad. 🙂 Rick Bonner Pennsyltucky
If you press the word ‘more’ you will receive an explanation. This is a human voice which has been augmented in a lab, whatever that means. Apparently, this process enables publishers of these audiobooks to save a great deal of time in production. I won't pretend I understand how it works, but the result could be worse, I suppose.
I agree, the speech is derived from the voice of an actual narrator. I suppose the AI process takes several audiobooks a narrator has produced and from that has a data base of spoken words to use to produce text to speech for any book. Text to speech has been around for a couple of decades at least, but has been taken to a new level with the AI process here it would seem. I guess that tone and emphasis of each word is changed using AI to fit into the sentence structure, punctuation and context in which the word is used. Lot's of very clever stuff.
Discovered Mr Maugham through this channel can't thank you enough.
Fantastic short stories
Thanks for all these stories
Thank You, neuralSurfer; a good... "read".
What I InJoyed about this Writer, Somerset Maugham and the story, 'A Man From Glasgow', was the Author's treatment o' "dialogue".
In particular, the well illustrated care that the Characters use in Thier speech; Thier respect for the 'psychology' and 'appropriate for the times' social-etiquette that courtesy seems to require when responding to, or not responding verbally to, both Thier Own "inner-dialogue", or that 'nescessary' when speaking to anOther. ("You don' suppose I'm queer do You?" "No more or less than any Other, no.")
What I found "timeless" in the story though, was how 'The Man From Glasgow' could somehow 'permit' HimSelf to impose on the chuckling, howlin', roaring with laughter, un-seen Man so. Even to the point of arming HimSelf and burglarising the private domain of the un-seen Man, with clearly murderous intent.
Similar to the 'provocation' o' the Shopkeeper with the knife that We were introduced to at the start.
'The Man From Glasgow' HimSelf provides, perhaps, a clue; "By jove!" He says.
Things haven't changed much in some People's minds.
Some still insist upon initiating levels o' violence without what Aquinas in 'Just Law' calls "warranted", "just" cause.
Or, with what "Natural LAW" (and pure logic) refers to as an appropriate response to real or perceived aggression.
And..., invariably (ain' that just like Natural LAW; invariable!), the poe bastidges go stark, ravin' mad.
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Rick Bonner Pennsyltucky
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If you press the word ‘more’ you will receive an explanation. This is a human voice which has been augmented in a lab, whatever that means. Apparently, this process enables publishers of these audiobooks to save a great deal of time in production. I won't pretend I understand how it works, but the result could be worse, I suppose.
Thank you!
Is this read by an AI bot? I love his voice, regardless!
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I think so, some words are pronounced VERY strange....
With a slight rising inflection at odd times
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Yes, the intonation becomes unnerving, when you listen to it a lot
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So who was the madman? The scot?
Is that Pep Guardiola in a cloth cap in the picture?
No the reader is human though not always mentioned.
I agree, the speech is derived from the voice of an actual narrator. I suppose the AI process takes several audiobooks a narrator has produced and from that has a data base of spoken words to use to produce text to speech for any book. Text to speech has been around for a couple of decades at least, but has been taken to a new level with the AI process here it would seem. I guess that tone and emphasis of each word is changed using AI to fit into the sentence structure, punctuation and context in which the word is used. Lot's of very clever stuff.
An abrupt ending. Did Mr Maugham miss a deadline and turn the story in unfinished?
Thank you 🙏
The chap in the picture looks like Marty Pellow
Yep, Marty dunnit!😇
...or Pep Guardiola
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