Daily Short Stories - Mystery & Suspense - Podcast Rankings and reviews

A new short mystery story almost every night!
Some of these stories are great. Some are ok. Some I don’t end up liking so I don’t finish. Some of the readers are great. Some are ok. Some are hard to listen to, so I don’t. But, they are free. I look forward to checking out the story of the day every night when I go to bed.
Don’t be discouraged by the negative reviews. Just hit play. If you like it listen. If you don’t check back tomorrow. This is a short story treasure trove.

The stories are interesting but the narrator’s voice is very robotic and unexpressive. I can’t stay engaged because of the voice. Might as well be reading an instruction manual for a piece of furniture.

Diction is awkwardly timed and intoned, numerous common words are badly mispronounced with extra syllables or wrong emphasis, and some non-native speaker accents are nearly incomprehensible. These are either poorly programmed bots or remedial readers who are trying really hard. Makes it very hard to listen to and does the varied stories a disservice.

I like most of the short stories, but I really dislike the narrators. Is AI reading the stories? There is a curious flat (machine) inflection to them, or too many “mouth sounds” in others.