The Traitor, a Detective and Spy Story by Somerset Maugham
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- In "The Traitor" by W. Somerset Maugham, the protagonist, Ashenden, is a British intelligence officer during World War I who is tasked with investigating an alleged traitor named Caypor. Caypor is an Englishman living in neutral Switzerland with his German wife and is suspected of passing information to the enemy. Ashenden befriends Caypor under a false identity.... I won't reveal more here....
I am an actress and I am truly dismayed that Ai is doing our jobs for us when we have worked hard to train, often struggle to make enough money to continue and do every other jobs, to have our livelihood removed and not done very well by AI. There is no real feel to this and the voice becomes robotic and flat in part. But I love Maugham's stories nevertheless.
I understand but these are real people who contributed and have had their voices augmented for scale. Also thousands of dollars are spent out of pocket for such. No one is used who didn’t consciously submit.
There is no way that this was AI! There is far too much expression and warnth in the voice.
AI is emotionless and doesn't have the flow of words that this Reader has. Pronunciation, punctuation and annunciation is read in the right places, and his English grammar perfect! ❤
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I am just saying, although I enjoy listening to the stories I find mutilation of words in English, German and Italian demoralizing, where a true human would take the time to pronounce them correctly. I do notice that you’ve changed the volume in the pitch occasionally to create a more confidential reader to listener vibe. It is what it is they are OK they would be better with a human doing it. This is where AI is right now.
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Apparently, they clone actual human voices to use in these stories. So, a real person's voice,but not read by a human!
Ive been listening to these all to pass the time, they are interesting reeds.
Im glad so many reader's like stories with twits and turns.
It beats the mudane of a paint by number's existence for some folk's lives.
Wonderful folklore! ❤
Thank you very much for sharing 💙💙💙
Well read ......good voice ..... thanks for the story...🎉🎉
Its a bloody computer
It’s a shame that hardly anyone writes prose of this quality anymore
Maugham was amazing. So prolific.
Try Alan Furst.
I love how stark and simple Maugham’s endings are.
There is a TV film called The Traitor, 1959 with Mai Zetterling, Donald Pleasance, which is adapted directly from the book. Haven’t watched it yet though.
Love the graphics! Thanks
Brilliantly shared.
interesting story. I dislike the AI because of the weird stresses and sentence breaks but its a free book so we have to endure it.
There is no way that this was AI! There is far too much expression and warnth in the voice.
AI is emotionless and doesn't have the flow of words that this Reader has. Pronunciation, punctuation and annunciation is read in the right places, and his English grammar perfect! ❤
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A superb story.
Thank you 🙏
Delighted with the stories, curious about why AI. No starving actors about there?
Every voice here is a real person who has authorized their use via augmentation.
There is no way that this was AI! There is far too much expression and warnth in the voice.
AI is emotionless and doesn't have the flow of words that this Reader has. Pronunciation, punctuation and annunciation is read in the right places, and his English grammar perfect! ❤
@@eshiestrik2756above you will find the account itself confirming this is AI. Newer AI uses the voices of real actors. It takes hours of audio from people, who are paid scale for that time at least, and then modulates it to make it feel mostly natural in the reading of new texts. Hence the very odd mispronunciations of some words and the misuse of certain homonyms in their context. It mostly works, I suppose, but is insidious in that it can get even you to come to it's defence despite the account confirming it's use.
It truly doesn't work for some authors I will say. Listed to Hemingway on here. The last of proper feeling in the AI reading truly makes his repetitive style of writing feels like your reading a middle schooler's writing. I guess I've never been a huge Hemingway fan, but the reading of Big Two-Hearted River was just awful!
Great stories. Just realised read by AI. German pronounced as, with a G for golf and Ally pronounced as in Alley! Lol
Thank you, I don't do AI, I believe in payment for humans.
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That's why I found something strange at times. Lol
There is no way that this was AI! There is far too much expression and warnth in the voice.
AI is emotionless and doesn't have the flow of words that this Reader has. Pronunciation, punctuation and annunciation is read in the right places, and his English grammar perfect! ❤
Yes, certainly AI but fairly good. It gets very ragged around the 26:34 mark. However it's ridiculous for people to complain about the non-payment of a human to read when they're getting a free service.
There is no expression in this narration. Is it AI?
Yes
@@Clarice-e6gI can’t stand AI. 😡
@@paulaeppley3569 I now say that I am leaving becausr of AI.....apart fron nauseating delivery I believe a HUMAN (remember them) shoud have a paying job...otherwise we will all be reduntant .🤔😘
What are you talking about? There is heaps of expression!
IT IS NOT AI!!!
There is no way that this was AI!
There is far too much expression and warnth in the voice.
The narrator has the required flow of words that this person has.
His pronunciation, punctuation and annunciation is read in the right places, and his English accent and ENGLISH grammar is perfect! That is what makes it such an interesting story ❤
@@eshiestrik2756 So Cuckoo pronounced as Coo-coo, ally as alley and German as gerr-man? What kind of perfect English is that?
Eight adverts in the first twenty minutes? Killed the momentum
Loved the hitchcock film.thank you for this.
which hitchcock was this?
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The eerie howl of the dog marks the end of his master .l feel sad for the dog.Sad story .
For all those stating that the narration is AI, without proof and maybe not listening all the way through, IT IS NOT AI!!!
There is no way that this was AI!
There is far too much expression and warnth in the voice.
THE narrator has the required flow of words that this person has.
His pronunciation, punctuation and annunciation is read in the right places, and his English accent and ENGLISH grammar is perfect! That is what makes it such an interesting story ❤
As an English person, I assure you that no English person prounounces Ally as Ali.
Heaven knows why you're insisting it's a human voice when it's so obviously not (can't you hear all those glitches?). Nevertheless, we're all here listening so obviously the AI voice doesn't put us off.
Of course his grammar is perfect - he’s “reading” Somerset Maugham ‘s words QED ! The voice is expressionless and much pronunciation and intonation is totally wrong .
@@stevecharman8420 You’re absolutely right . Nowhere else can I find such a comprehensive collection of these stories so it’s Hobson’s Choice isn’t it ?
@eshiestrik2756 - Take the time to read the channel description. It explains the use of AI augmented human voices and that they pay $1000 a month to use it. It is pretty good nontheless, even if the intonation and metre is a bit duff on occasion. There are also giveaways such as pronouncing Basel "Bars-le", ally "Alley" and Cuckoo "Coo-coo". No reasonably-educated native English speaker would make those errors.
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Who is the narrator please!
AI
If you liked it I hope your way of life is taken over by ai....with respect.
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There is no way that this was AI! There is far too much expression and warnth in the voice.
AI is emotionless and doesn't have the flow of words that this Reader has. Pronunciation, punctuation and annunciation is read in the right places, and his English grammar perfect! ❤
@@eshiestrik2756 it is AI
Fantastic writing, and pretty good narration. W Somerset Maugham begat Graham Greene, and Graham Greene begat John le Carre.
To be perfectly frank, there's no one stepping up to fill the shoes left empty by the death of John le Carre.
Mick Herron writes entertaining books but lacks the storytelling ability of the young Frederick Forsythe or le Carre's examination of human motives
Tom Rob Smith was recommended to me so I read CHILD 44. Poorly written plagiarism (THE KILLER DEPARTMENT/CITIZEN X) with plot holes that infants could spot. Total gimmick.
It has been stated that not only Graham Greene (a great writer), Ian Fleming owes W. Somerset Maugham as well. Indeed R reminds me of M.
So digital 😔
Very greasy
AI load of rubbish.