The Captive in the Caucasus. A Short Story by Leo Tolstoy

[@bikeshoptodd930]

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.

[@kristenkrueger5527]

❤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.

[@ProdigalSon684]

I’ll be 70 this year, and the more I trust, and obey God, the better it gets.

[@CharlieKellyEsq]

​@@kristenkrueger5527you would still get it. Good for you. You took care of yourself well.

[@sapevi]

Man. I am addicted to your videos !!! I have to listen to them every day

[@helenanovak725]

Thank you for this upload.

[@Xorcist777]

Thanks

[@franceswray8340]

Great story! Not familiar with this piece by Tolstoy, but it was well worth listening to.

[@Chipdenn]

May I request reading.of "war and peace". Thank you

[@janetbaggi-biotelli9352]

😮 Did Russia eliminate the TarTars and steal all their land?

[@TS-1267]

... " SAME OLD SAME OLDSKI "… EH OLD BEAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@dizheller2101]

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.

[@Kitiwake]

There are no mispronouncememts.

[@dizheller2101]

@@Kitiwake You are right, but there are mispronunciations - occasionally - and they catch my attention and interrupt the flow of the narrative for me.

[@quickchris10]

@@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.

[@agneshouessou9765]

❓❓🤷‍♀️✝️🙏

[@janetbarkwith]

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 ...)

[@aaronkalahar-_-_-]

I was wondering that too. This channel cranks out new narrations way too often not to, I suspect.

[@redrustyhill2]

Yeah, 99% sure its AI.

[@ProdigalSon684]

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]

Personally I appreciate exposure to literature like this. If you don’t want AI read it yourself.

[@janetbarkwith]

@@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.