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Practical knowledge about audio guides, multimedia guides, whisper sets, audio tours and voice-overs. From the daily practice of museums, attractions and guided tours.
A museum app as an audio guide alongside hardware: why it works
A museum app alongside audio guide hardware improves service and makes your tour more inclusive. Read why app first with hardware as a back-up works.
What is the best length for audio stories in an audio guide?
How long should an audio story in an audio guide be? Research and practice point to one to two minutes per clip. With tips for adding layers of depth.
From museum texts to museum stories
Museum texts inform, stories inspire. Discover how professional voice actors and museum guides bring your collection to life and make it more memorable.
Which headphones suit your attraction best?
Orpheo Airset, Sennheiser HP 02 or HD 200 PRO? Compare comfort, speech intelligibility and hygiene and choose the right headphones for your visitors.
Tourist apps: PWA or dedicated app?
Should you choose a progressive web app or a native app for your museum or attraction? The differences, benefits and choices at a glance.
Discovering Brussels City Hall with the Orpheo Touch
How the Orpheo Touch multimedia guide brings Brussels' Gothic city hall to life: two tours, six languages, 360-degree images and Philippe Geluck.
Sennheiser MobileConnect: streaming multilingual audio to smartphones
With Sennheiser MobileConnect you stream live audio and interpretation via Wi-Fi to your audience's smartphones. How it works and where to use it.
Multimedia tour in the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
How Orpheo built a fourteen-language multimedia tour on the Orpheo Touch for the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, with AR and indoor navigation.
The hybrid media guide of the Statue of Liberty
On Liberty Island, millions of visitors use the Orpheo Hybe. Read why this rugged hybrid media guide is so well suited to busy venues.
The guide in control: the future of guided tours
With the Orpheo Hybe's Tour Guide Mode, the guide speaks live and decides which video and images the group sees. This is how the guide in control works.
Two-way communication with the Orpheo Hybe
With the Tour Guide Mode of the Orpheo Hybe, a tour becomes a conversation: visitors ask questions and the guide sends content to the group.
Handing out audio guides automatically with the Orpheo M-Box
With the Orpheo M-Box (formerly D-Box) you hand out audio guides in seconds and get real-time insight into languages, routes and visitor satisfaction.
How to store your audio guides
Upright, at working height and not too warm: tips for storing and charging audio guides, for a tidy front desk and a longer service life.
A compact tour guide system for travelling groups
Travelling with a group? The compact Orpheo Tourguide system fits in your hand luggage, works worldwide and lets everyone hear the guide.
Voice actors take your audio tour to the next level
What a professional voice actor adds to your audio tour, when to record it yourself and how to approach a multilingual tour. Tips from GuideXpresse.
Visitor guidance in 5 ways
Tour guide system, live streaming, audio guide, multimedia guide or app: five ways of guiding visitors and when to choose which.
Augmented reality for deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors
In Unmute Art, portraits by Andy Warhol tell their story in sign language, through augmented reality on the Orpheo Touch. An inclusive art experience.
An immersive tour in 3D audio
With 3D audio, visitors hear sounds coming from exactly the right direction. That turns an audio tour into a truly immersive experience.
8 reasons to offer an audio tour
Better knowledge transfer, every visitor in their own language and insight into visitor behaviour: eight reasons to offer an audio tour with audio guides.
How do you make an audio tour?
Making an audio tour in four steps: from story and trigger points to production and management in GuideXpresse Manager. With a handy checklist.
A city walk where everyone listens
Audio guide or live guide with a tour guide system? The benefits of both, plus tips for a city walk where everyone hears the story.
Audio guides in sync with video
Let audio guides play in sync with the video in your exhibition: sound in the visitor's own language, at exactly the right moment.
Hearing damage versus red wine: what really helps?
Does red wine protect against hearing damage? What research says about alcohol and resveratrol, and what really helps on tours in a noisy environment.
Why a whisper set is indispensable at a multilingual wedding
With a whisper set, all your guests can follow the wedding ceremony in their own language. Why an interpretation set belongs at every multilingual wedding.
What is a whisper set?
A whisper set lets a group hear a speaker clearly through an earpiece. How it works, where to use it and what makes a good whisper set.
Desire and suspense in a factory tour
How do you hold attention during a factory tour? With the AIDA model, desire and suspense, and equipment that takes away distractions.
School trips can be even more fun and more educational
With a tour guide system every pupil hears the guide, even on a noisy farm or in a workshop. That makes a school trip far more educational.
4 reasons why a tour guide system is so valuable for a factory tour
Greater engagement, better working conditions and more safety: four reasons to use a tour guide system on your factory tour.
A whisper set in the courtroom: faster and more accessible
Simultaneous interpreting in court with a whisper set such as the Sennheiser Tourguide 2020-D: faster, discreet and accessible to non-native speakers.
The benefits of renting a whisper set
Renting a whisper set instead of buying one: no investment, no maintenance and always the right number of receivers. All the benefits at a glance.
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