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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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