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Find A Tour Near You. Drive, walk, bike or paddle along a tour route at your own pace. Stories about where you are — the history, wildlife, culture, and more — will automatically play as you go.

Hands-Free. Heads Up. Start a tour and let our technology do the rest. Less like an app and more like a private tour guide, TravelStorys works offline and inside a pocket. Download a tour, hit the play button, and focus on your surroundings instead of your device.

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Explore the early beginnings of the vibrant village of Piermont. Learn about its connection to the Hudson River, its role in the American Revolution, its industrial past and its commercial significance to the country.

Welcome to Arco, Idaho! Arco is a place of transition, where the desert plain meets the mountains, blue streams disappear into black lava, and the urban of Idaho gives way to the wilds of Idaho.

Welcome to this walking tour of Kirksville, Missouri! This tour will take you to Kirksville’s most fascinating and historically significant landmarks, while sharing the stories of the people who made this such an interesting city.

What Users Are Saying

“Awesome App - A must have app for anyone who enjoys learning more about the area they are in. While being entertained by great stories and information. Great job!!!”

“Great idea! - What an innovative idea! So enjoyed my first tour (of Red Mountain Park) by using your app. I look forward to using it at other attractions in the future and have high hopes that all cities will offer this first class format to help enhance the experience of traveling.”

"We used this app in Jackson,WY and through Teton National Park. As we drove through Teton NP, we listened to the historical story of the area. It gave us so much more understanding of the area and added so much to our drive. It’s really easy to use and added so much to our trip. Would gladly use it again."

“Awesome app - This app is great when traveling around Wyoming. The stories told make you appreciate what you are driving or walking through! A must have whether you are a local interested in the history and wildlife or a tourist on the go!”

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“Excellent app! - I love this app! We used it on a recent trip through Grand Teton Park and it provided us with a depth and breadth of information (regarding the park) to which we would not otherwise have access! I look forward to seeing what other tours will be added. Great work!”

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“Fantastic road tripping tool! - My family used TravelStorys to plan our trip to Jackson Hole and this app was indispensable! We listened to several of their tours through the Tetons and absolutely loved it. The app spoke to us while driving, so we didn’t have to look at the phone once!”

“Great app for traveling families - When you approach a destination, the app will automatically start, you don’t need to do anything but listen. If you don’t want the audio, you can read the text. There are also great photos for each section. The stories are quirky and fun and both kids and adults will find them interesting.”

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“Great app with great potential - I can’t wait until there are even more stories! Great idea.”

“Great App. A must have for self guided, easy to use interface!”

“What fun - Turns a normal drive into a fascinating history lesson”

“Fun tour app! - Learned so much without hassle!”

“Sooooo cool!! This is the best app I've ever used. If your traveling to new places use this app to learn the history! Couldn't live without it!”

- Ray Kennedy

“Eye opener My family and I have traveled to Wyoming many times but we always seemed to visit the same old places again and again. However this app allows me to check out new places I've never even considered before. I guess there is a lot more to the state than Yellowstone. Can't wait to plan new adventures.”

“Indispensable! Used this app to plan and then tour the Tetons and surrounding areas. Our whole family was entertained and we learned so much! And it's free. Thank you TravelStorys.”

“I like it, great idea! Music and Radio only lasts so long on road trips. This app is awesome because it tells you stories about what you are driving by, and gives you cool info about the area. Great idea!”

- William Davis

“Loved this! My sisters, mom, and 7-year-old niece used this app as we visited the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone. It was wonderful! It really helped us feel a connection to the mountains and places we toured. I want this for everywhere I go now!”

- R. Tynker

“Love it, learn the history of where your traveling too via this awesome storytelling app. Love the vocals for the great Smoky Mountains! Grateful!”

- JillianPress

“Great! Local travel info & stories. I love this app. I learned a lot about the Jackson, Wyoming area & Grant Teton Nat’l Park. I have already recommended it to folk who connect with my own local Jackson based business, xcDogs. Everyone I speak to about it loves the idea…”

“Excellent adventure stories for the Grand Tetons”

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"For new visitors paddling on a sunny day, the new TravelStorys app is an opportunity to understand the ecological and culture significance of the area. At home or in the classroom, the voice narration coupled with photos can entice and enhance the experience before a canoe even launches."

- NewJersey.com

"Great app for visitors & locals - This app rocks. Learned so much about Jackson Hole and the surrounding areas just by having my phone on me. Anyone who is adventuring in the wild Wild West should consider having this app on their phone. You’ll be surprised with how much you can learn on your trip!"

- Austin Hopkins

Neat app! Great for a frequent traveler or history buff! Very interesting stories about pikes peak! Can't wait for the Garden of the gods tour!

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Offline guides in 350+ cities, audio guide.

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Experience the magic of GPS audio walks, cycles, drives and even boat rides with VoiceMap tours in over 350 destinations worldwide. They’re like podcasts that move with you, to tell stories about what you’re seeing right now. VoiceMap’s tours are produced by insightful local storytellers, including journalists, filmmakers, novelists, podcasters, and tour guides. Sir Ian McKellen has even created a tour. It's around London's West End, where he’s performed for over 50 years. Features: • Explore at your own pace. Start and stop tours whenever you like, then use the resume option to pick up exactly where you left off. • With GPS autoplay, you can focus on your surroundings, not the screen. Tap on Start, and let VoiceMap guide you. • VoiceMap works offline. After you download a tour, the audio will be available offline along with an offline map. • If you do go off in the wrong direction, VoiceMap plays an audio alert, and you can follow the map on your screen to the next location. • Listen to tours as many times as you like both in the destination and in virtual tour mode at home. • With over 1,200 free and paid tours, VoiceMap offers huge variety Reviews and Testimonials: “High-quality self-guided walking tours...Narrated by local experts, they provide insight into corners of the city sometimes overlooked by regular guided tours.” Lonely Planet “We may be biased, but could there be anything more helpful than having a journalist in your pocket when touring a new city? How about a historian, a novelist or just a really passionate local? VoiceMap culls city-specific stories from them all and fits them neatly into walking tours.” New York Times “My wife and I really enjoyed exploring Bruges at our own pace with this audio tour, and there were some memorable stories that the narrator shared. Also, the app worked great in relation to the location-based services. We easily followed the map and the audio was triggered in the appropriate spots. In comparison to the packs of people wandering the city with tour guides, this was a much better fit for us.” Viator review, Rick A “Brilliant. Can go at your own pace, good information and took us to places we would never have found ourselves.” Tripadvisor review, Ravin D “It was enjoyable to be under no time pressure to freely roam the city of Pisa as we so pleased. Wandering from attraction to attraction. The app is clever, concise and easy to use! Would do again - especially with another person or solo traveler.” GetYourGuide review, Grace L “Great quality information - interesting and entertaining. The time flew by. And no waffle! This is far better than any other guided tour we found - they are much more expensive and far less informative. And you can do this tour any time, any day, at your own pace, and even do it twice!” Tripadvisor review, Carcassonne 's Medieval Walls: A Self-Guided Tour “Great value for money, interesting and very clear and easy to follow! I learnt lots about London I didn't already know and I have lived here over 30 years.” London’s Alternative History Tour, Carmella V. “I loved the tour, bought all of the New Orleans ones you had and have already recommended it to two people. I will without a doubt continue to use the app.” Faith & Courage: Metairie Cemetery Stories, Jeremy L “Loved this! Real eye opener for me as a new resident of Singapore who thought this only an island of foodies and engineers. LOL! Please produce more soon!” Artoholic Singapore, Craig DeLarge ** Just so you know, GPS runs in the background while you're on a tour. This decreases battery life and it's best to start a tour with your device fully charged.

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We’re calling Version 12 of the VoiceMap app “Rome” because we developed it to solve the problem of visiting the Vatican Museums. This treasure trove, collected by one pope after the other, for centuries, has 54 galleries linking 1,400 rooms with 20,000 items on display. It’s a lot to take in over a single afternoon. Then, at the end, when you’ve been overwhelmed into a tired, footsore resignation, you arrive at the crowning masterpiece: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. Our solution combines inspiring, insightful content that extends your attention span with a new interface for indoor tours that helps you make informed choices about how you spend your time and energy. Here’s what you’ll find: • Locations are grouped into digestible sections, like chapters breaking up a book. Each section has a total audio time and labels like “Essential” and “Optional” to help you decide what to see. • Clear navigation along a suggested route with text directions that slide in when you need them followed by a photo of where you need to be next. • Tap “I’m Here” when you’re ready – or don’t, and choose “Skip Location” instead to get directions to the next point on your route. • There’s also a "Dig Deeper" button for locations that go beyond the basics, letting you pick what interests you most. • From start to finish, you’ll see your progress through the tour as a whole on a bar at the top of the screen. • Just below the progress bar, there’s a carousel displaying every location on the tour grouped into sections. It shows you what you’ve listened to already, and helps you tell whether an optional section just ahead has two locations or twenty. • You can use the new section menu to browse through the tour, with summaries to help you decide what you want to make time for as well as what might be best left for another day. • Or you can listen with your feet up whenever you like with Virtual Playback. This turns the tour into something you can take in like a podcast or audio book. • Some locations have multiple photos, and we’ve added pinch to zoom so you can get in close and see the finer details. • If you’re running out of time, or energy, but you’re still trying to take in as much as you can, you can adjust the playback speed to get through things a little faster, at a higher pitch.

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2.8K Ratings

Excellent tour of Toulouse - not to be missed

For first time or return visitors, this is an excellent VoiceMap tour of the old city center area of Toulouse. Not only is Elyse an excellent historian/art historian, but she also gives wonderful context to the buildings, but also adds details and notes of places you might want to pause at or return to after the tour to take a closer look. Also don’t miss her conversations that you can access through the website and podcast called Join Us in France. There are many episodes that take place in Toulouse and great ideas for day trips in and around Toulouse.

Solid core but a little rough around the edges

I've followed a couple of tours and found their content to be good. The app itself is easy to use on the whole, but I wish you could open up the directions to the starting point in Google Maps as I don't have Apple Maps installed on my phone. Some indication of the cardinal direction to the starting point (if navigating without using a map) would also be appreciated (e.g. "30 yards to the north" rather than just "30 yards away"). And this is quite minor, but I don't need to receive the whole "You've paused the tour. To resume..." spiel every time I pause. Once when you first use the app or even once every day or tour would probably be sufficient to remind most people. Lastly, there seems to be a minor bug with the download status where it shows the last map segment (I think it was the map) as not having completely downloaded until I restart the app. That happened for both tours I downloaded.

Good app with potential to be excellent

Let me to start off by saying that functionality wise, this is a very exciting app. The audio synced to location works well and it’s an exciting way to explore a city on your own if you don’t wish to do an organized group walking tour. The tours I took through this app in Granada, Spain completely enhanced my trip to the city taking me to places I wouldn’t go on my own and giving me a ton of great information in the history of the city. That said, I found that the tours for other cities I used the app in (Seville and Madrid) were much less successful. This app runs on free lance content and it’s missing a lot of basic walking tours for popular tourist cities, and some of the tours it does offer for those cities are too niche to be appealing for most users. Hopefully this will change in the future if the app continues to attract creators but right now it’s missing some key content.

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Get a historian in your ear, any place, any time, how context audio tours work.

Get a Context expert in your ear on a self-paced Audio Tour on the VoiceMap App

The VoiceMap audio tour app uses GPS to play audio automatically, at the right time and place. Just install it, then download your tour and go to the starting point to begin your walk.

Tours follow a route from a fixed starting point. This is how we provide turn-by-turn directions. It also helps experts tell a story greater than the sum of its parts. But you can use resume to pick up a tour from the closest location whenever you like.

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Around Review: The Best Place to Take Audio Tours

I love walking tours. The first thing I do when I arrive somewhere is take a walking tour. It’s a great way to get the feel of a new place, see the main sights, and adjust to the local culture. You also get to meet a local expert guide who can answer your questions and give you tips on other spots to check out (I always ask for recommendations for places to eat, for example).

But sometimes the dates and times that walking tours are offered don’t line up with my schedule, especially if I’m only in a place for a few days or if I’m visiting when there is a local holiday. I also like to be spontaneous, and often tours are already filled up for the day or don’t allow last-minute registrations. Plus, I really like going at my own pace when exploring a city, and I don’t always feel like being tied to a tour for three hours.

In the past, this meant I was just out of luck. But today, there’s another option available: self-guided audio tours.

With the prevalence of smartphones, it’s now possible to access guided walking tours from your mobile device, giving you tons of freedom when it comes to taking a walking tour.

I’ve taken audio tours around the world, and they can really run the gamut in terms of quality. Around aims to take the guesswork out of finding quality audio tours by vetting local guides and compiling tours from cities around the world in one place.

In this review of Around, I’ll share everything you need to know about using this new tour marketplace!

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What is Around?

How does around work, pros of using around, cons of using around.

Around is a platform where travelers can find and take self-guided audio walking tours in major cities around the world. Around vets local experts who create and list tours on the website, so you always know that you’re getting a quality tour guide. (Around does not run tours themselves; they rely on local experts.)

Tours generally last 60-90 minutes, though there are longer ones (such as Full Immersion Verona ) lasting upwards of 180 minutes. Keep in mind that the estimated times do not take into account how many times you stop and start (and they certainly don’t account for that delicious pastry break!).

Since tours on Around are created by local experts, there’s a mixture of detailed tours on a particular topic (such as the 19th Century Skyscrapers Tour of Chicago , led by a professional Chicago tour guide who specializes in architecture and design) as well as general overview tours geared towards first-time visitors (like the Berlin Highlights Tour ).

Tours are mainly offered in English, though there are some tours in Spanish and Italian, with the intent of adding more languages soon.

All you need to take an Around walking tour is a smartphone with GPS enabled and an internet connection (no need to download a new app). Rather than the traditional tour model where you pay per tour, with Around, you purchase an all-access pass which lets you take as many tours as you want within a period of time, from 24 hours to 14 days.

This is a great value when you consider that taking one walking tour is normally around $5-20 USD, and for most cities on Around, there are at least three tours currently offered. If you’re visiting a place for a weekend, the three-day pass is perfect, as you can take all the tours you want for just $14.99 USD. Purchases on Around can be made in five main currencies (USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD) to avoid exchange rate fees.

If you’re more of a slow traveler and staying somewhere longer, or are visiting a few different cities on one trip, there are one-week and two-week passes too.

Once you purchase a pass, you’ll unlock all Around’s available tours for that period of time. As the company started in Italy , you’ll see the most cities represented there:

You’ll also find tours in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and throughout Europe, with new cities being added all the time. In fact, since I started writing this post, new cities have been added!

On each tour page, you’ll see helpful information including the duration, recommended starting point, information about the expert guide, a map of the stops, and a short description of what the tour is about:

I really like how you can listen to a 30-second preview of the tour. That way, you can quickly get a feel for the guide before you decide to embark on a longer audio adventure with them.

Each tour page also displays some of the highlights in visual form, which is super helpful for knowing whether the tour covers main city landmarks that you might not want to miss:

While tours all come with a recommended starting point, you can start at any location on the tour. Upon starting, you’ll follow the route, guided by your map and the voice of your guide. Once you reach an appointed stop on the tour, an orange button pops up. Hit the button to listen to the guide’s expertise at the stop.

You can pause and replay each stop as many times as you like, which is handy in busy cities that might be loud or otherwise distracting.

In fact, while you’re in the city where the tour takes place, you can play each stop’s audio whenever you like. This is not only helpful if you’re using an older device that might struggle with precise GPS (so it might not recognize if you’re standing at an audio stop), but if you didn’t have time to finish the tour while walking around, you can still learn the information while relaxing in your hotel or hostel later.

And as long as your access pass remains valid, you can take the whole tour again if you really want to!

Around takes the guesswork out of finding quality audio walking tours, and there’s a lot to like about this newcomer on the tour company scene.

I especially liked how, with Around, you can:

• Take expertly guided walking tours at any hour of the day
• Stop, start, replay, and come back to tours on a truly self-paced tour experience
• Enjoy as many tours as you want for one price, with their unlimited access pass

Around is still in development, meaning that they’re still working out the kinks. While they’re off to a great start, here are some places I’d love to see them improve upon:

• More cities offered (which is something they’re actively working on)
• Downloadable tours as you currently need an internet connection to take tours, which is something you may not have when you’re traveling
• Short bios of the guides to highlight their background and expertise (most are professionally licensed guides)

Around is a cool, affordable platform with lots of potential. While there are a lot of companies offering walking tours these days, there still isn’t a lot of focus on audio tours. It’d be great to have a go-to place to find curated expert-led audio tours around the world. I’m looking forward to seeing them flesh out some of the features and add more cities too. If you’re somewhere that Around offers tours, definitely check them out!

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Book Your Flight Find a cheap flight by using Skyscanner . It’s my favorite search engine because it searches websites and airlines around the globe so you always know no stone is being left unturned.

Book Your Accommodation You can book your hostel with Hostelworld . If you want to stay somewhere other than a hostel, use Booking.com as it consistently returns the cheapest rates for guesthouses and hotels.

Don’t Forget Travel Insurance Travel insurance will protect you against illness, injury, theft, and cancellations. It’s comprehensive protection in case anything goes wrong. I never go on a trip without it as I’ve had to use it many times in the past. My favorite companies that offer the best service and value are:

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Here are the reasons selftour surpasses all other tours....

All turn-by-turn directions and descriptions are spoken for easy to easy navigation and understanding. Our tours are a complete circle so you end up where you started… not some unknown location!

All information is activated by GPS as you move.

No waiting at a specific time for others to show up. Go when you want, take a brake anytime, and resume at your own pace and schedule.

Should you make a wrong turn, there is a complete map indicating all the sites along the way. Also pictures of the individual sites are available to insure you are looking at the right sight.

Our travel experts do intense research choosing the best sites to see and the accurate information you want to know about each.

Both are available. The platform used in our apps is new technology engineered by iApp Tours using exclusive mobile software.

No more straining or pushing to get close to hear the tour guide. The audio comes directly to your ear buds or car stereo system.

If you missed something in the audio description, or didn’t understand the directions, no problem! Simply touch the position on the phone or tablet map and it will play again.

Excellent writers and professional voice actors, music, sound effects and a light delivery style make the listening fun.

Tour at a fraction of the cost of other paid guided tours. Even “free” guided tours pressure you for a “tip” or to purchase something in the guide’s “favorite store”. Our tours have no advertising or referrals.

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LEGENDARY HOLLYWOOD

Language: English Type: Walking Tour

NAPA & SONOMA VALLEYS

Language: English Type: Driving Tour — Great for Biking Too!

Wearing ear buds or headsets while driving is against the law in California.

HISTORIC PHILLY

WASHINGTON DC - WALKING TOUR

ROME ETERNAL

WASHINGTON DC - DRIVING TOUR

Language: English Type: Driving Tour

THE FRENCH QUARTER

BARCELONA GOTHIC QUARTER

DUBROVNIK WALLED CITY

PARIS LA CITÉ

PRAGUE - CITY OF HUNDRED SPIRES

SAN ANTONIO RIVER WALK

MUCH MORE TO COME!

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The voices were charming.  I particularly liked the Italian fellow.  He was like a friend leading us through his hometown.

There was not enough emphasis on the role of black folks and their contribution to this city.  Our forefathers were not all musicians.  They contributed in many ways to the building of the French Quarter and its history.

“It was our first trip to the Napa wine area and we would have been totally lost without this app. It not only took us to a lot of fun places, good wineries and some places we never knew existed, but was enjoyable to listen to. My husband and I highly recommend it.”

Being able to follow the route with GPS took the scariness out of roaming through a foreign city for the first time.  When will you have a tour of Paris?

Too much driving on all those small roads, especially in the St. Helena area, so we gave up part way.  What we did hear of the tour was good.

We particularly enjoyed the back roads the tour featured.  Narrow tree lined roads, picturesque landscapes, charming houses, and some hidden wineries where you could sample some very good wine for less.  A beautiful tour through a beautiful area.  I’d do it again.

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Explore Your World

The travel app to turn your smartphone into a GPS audio tour guide for your road trip.

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Key Features

Great Content — Written by award-winning travel writers from National Geographic , Outside Magazine , AAA and others

Works Anywhere — Without phone service or WiFi!

Hands-Free — Stories play automatically to let you drive safely and see more sites

Inexpensive — Costs less than most guidebooks

Encourages Exploration — Entertains while educating

Free Updates

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Simple and Easy to Use

How It Works

Get the full story.

Just Ahead audio guides are written by expert authors and narrated by professionals. You simply drive, while Just Ahead informs and entertains you.

GPS-guided tour

As you drive in your car or travel by train or bus, Just Ahead takes you on a guided tour. It uses GPS to know exactly where you are and what to say. Imagine you’re cresting a hill and in front of you is a beautiful sight. You’re wondering what it is. That’s when Just Ahead shares with you an exciting story about what you’re looking at.

Works offline

Many of the most beautiful places in the world don’t have mobile phone service. Just Ahead is designed to work wherever you are, even without WiFi or a cell signal. Just be sure to download your guide before you go on your trip.

Built-in maps

Don’t you hate it when you try to use the maps on your smartphone and they don’t work because there’s no mobile phone service? No worries. Each Just Ahead guide comes bundled with an offline version of the maps you need, even without Internet access.

Great stories

Just Ahead guides are written by expert authors and filled with fascinating stories of history, geology, and wildlife. You can’t read and drive. It’s crazy, illegal, and will probably make you sick. Let us guide and inform you as you drive.

Suggested directions

Just Ahead can also help you avoid getting lost by suggesting directions. Just Ahead tells you why you should turn or not, what you should do after a turn, and recommends the best direction to take if there are multiple route options. It’s like having a professional tour guide in the car with you.

Trip-planning resources

Every time we go on a trip, we stress out about when to go, where to stay, what to see, etc. Wouldn’t it be great if you had someone with you who had been on that exact trip countless times? Sharing tips and tricks before you even leave your house? Just Ahead does exactly that.

We get you there and back

Just Ahead tells you everything you need to know about your destination. But we also know that there are a lot of miles between home and the park, or between this park and the next. That’s why we cover all the common routes to and from your destination. No matter which route you choose, we’re with you, telling you stories along the way.

Where next?

We at Just Ahead are working to build the most comprehensive series of audio guides for the whole world. Wherever you’re traveling, we want to be there.

Press and Awards

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What people are saying.

“I really like how we didn't need a signal since we were out of range, and also how it knew where we were and gave us info for the things right in our view!”

— Laurie G.

“Holy cow! Just got back from my Death Valley trip and I can't believe how great the app was along the journey. Not only did it guide us to hikes and places we might have (easily) overlooked, but gave us perspective of the park that allowed us to appreciate it on a whole new level (history, points of interest, flora/fauna, etc.).”

— Jesse Forest

★★★★★ “…great on-demand tour information about the park and really opened up the experience….”

— iTunes Reviewer

★★★★★ “This is one of the best apps I've ever used. Exploring Joshua Tree Park with this app was excellent. It even distinguished between the direction of driving and told different information for each direction.”

“I never knew the desert was so alive!”

— Alex N. (age 7)

It's never been easier to

Build beautiful audio tours..

Create professional audio tours that are available on any phone or computer. It can be easily shared and downloaded onto Android and iOS devices.

Who uses YourAudioTour?

Towns and Cities

Showcase your town's public art exhibits or an interesting neighbourhood. Towns and cities use Your Audio Tour to help teach locals and tourists about history and architecture. Sign up to see how easy it is to create your own tour!

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Museums and Galleries

Create a modern tour that all your visitors can enjoy. Not only will visitors be able to use the tour onsite but you now have a virtual tour of the museum online. Add QR Codes to each exhibit or offer visitors a phone number so they can dial in.

Universities and Schools

Universities create audio tours to educate students and showcase their campuses. Your Audio Tour makes it easy for institutions to create unique and useful audio tours.

Religious Sites

Churches, Temples and Religious Sites are packed full of history. Audio tours guide worshipers through the site and teach history. Giving people time to learn and meditate on the importance of such history can give a deeper connection.

Parks and Trails

Parks and trails build tours to teach visitors as they enjoy outdoor experiences. Teach visitors about the animals, plants, geographical formations and history that makes your park or trail unique!

Tour Guides

Visitors can purchase and listen to self guided tours created by tourism providers. This provides an additional source of income and a way to promote attractions and local businesses. See what Your Audio Tour can do for you!

Sightseeing Drives

The world is full of beautiful and enjoyable drives. Why not enhance visitor's driving expereince by adding an audio tour? It can help provide additional historical and educational content to bring greater appreciation to the drive itself.

Upload Custom Audio

Upload your own custom recorded audio in mp3 format and update at any time.

Available Offline

Tours can be downloaded onto Apple and Android phones and accessed like an app.

Charge For Your Tours

Charge visitors to take your tour and get paid quickly and securely.

Text-to-Speech Technology

Instantly create audio with the latest text-to-speech technology. Choose from 5+ voices.

Testimonials

YourAudioTour has been the perfect solution for us. Over several years we looked at a lot of options to create an audio tour for our Art Walk, but this was by far the easiest to create, best looking finished product, and on top of that we received super customer service! Kim, Yountville CA

Great customer service! YourAudioTour implemented custom stop identifiers and QR code integration to help us create the tour we wanted. We love that the tour works on any type of phone and it is easy to share online and in person. Our visitors are loving it, keep up the great work! Joshua, Cleveland OH

Perfect for our small museum - the text to speech made it really easy! Ryan, Leeds UK

The custom audio option allowed us to build the tour we wanted. Excellent customer service helping us through the whole process! Sarah, Waterloo ON

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Audio Tours

Our local expert guides have recorded some of our most popular tours as self-guided audio tours.

We have partnered with Atlantis Audio Tours to provide you with a convenient way to experience our tours.

Each tour offers an off-line option to view the map and hear the audio of each walk so that you don't need to have GPS maps running with the app.

Here is how it works:

• Purchase an audio tour from our Booking Page.
• You’ll receive a confirmation email with a .pdf, Google Map link, and audio tour.
• Enjoy the tour(s).

Available Tours:

• Amsterdam Audio Tours
• Boston Audio Tours
• Bruges Audio Tours
• Charleston Audio Tours
• Chicago Audio Tours
• Dubai Audio Tours
• Dublin Audio Tours
• Edinburgh Audio Tours
• Lisbon Audio Tours
• Audio Tours of London
• Los Angeles Audio Tours
• Miami Audio Tours
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• Paris Audio Tours
• Prague Audio Tours
• Rome Audio Tours
• GPS Audio Tours of San Francisco
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• Washington DC Audio Tours

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Audio Guide

Our ergonomic, simple and intuitive audio guide system, for a better visitor experience. Durable for many years of use, the Orpheo Mikro LX serves fine arts museums, travelling exhibits, factories, universities and all other cultural and tourist sites around the world.

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Group Guiding System

Intended for group guided live tours, the Orpheo Tour Guide system has been specially designed to be lightweight, robust and easily configured. Wireless, suitable and adaptable to any tour: for company and factory tours, museum and exhibit tours.

Multimedia Guide Run Apps without WiFi

The Orpheo Touch is a multimedia guide designed for both indoor and outdoor cultural sites to enhance your visitors’ experience. This digital companion offers a beautiful image quality, a wireless charging connector and a shock-resistant case. It comes with a tour app generator, MyOrpheo Studio.

Hybrid Guide Multimedia Guide and Tour Guide

The Orpheo Hybe is a hybrid multimedia guide with a radio guide function for live group tours. This versatile device combines two of Orpheo’s key product lines, halfway between an audio guide for self-guided tours and a tour guide for group tours.

Other Orpheo Products

We have developed a real ecosystem around our audio, multimedia and tour guide devices to better guide visitors to cultural and tourist sites. Contactless audio headsets, automatic triggering and video synchronization systems, touch and audio-visual kiosks, Wi-Fi access points, connected distribution boxes, solutions for tourist vehicles… and much more.

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• The Hagia Sophia

• Ephesus Ancient City Tour

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• Louvre Museum

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• The Hanging Church

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• The Location

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Claude vigée.

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Claude Vigée was born on January 3, 1921, in Bischwiller. After finishing his schooling, he undertook studies in medicine. In 1940 he was forced into exile to southwest France, where he participated in the Jewish Resistance, before reaching the United States in 1943. Doctor of Letters, Claude Vigée teaches French and European literature at Ohio State University, then at Brandeis University. In 1950 he published his first major collection of poetry, La lutte avec l’ange. In the course of his career he met many great French writers, including Louis Aragon, Pierre Emmanuel, André Gide, Saint-John Perse, and Albert Camus. In 1960 he was appointed professor of Romance and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Once retired, he settled permanently in Paris. His literary work, which includes poetry and essays, many of which evoke his life experience in Bischwiller and Alsace and are marked by the theme of the heartbreak associated with exile, has been rewarded with numerous prizes, including the Burckhardt Prize, the Fémina Vacaresco Prize, the Würth Prize, the Grand Prix de l’Académie Française, and the Grand Bretzel d’Or. Claude Vigée is an honorary citizen of the city of Bischwiller.

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• Mobile signal may be weak at the site(s). Download your audio tour on your smartphone prior to your visit to fully enjoy it.
• Ensure that your smartphone is fully charged and that you bring your earphones.

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To take this self-guided tour, you will need to download the Clio Muse Tours app on your iOS or Android device. Enjoy your tour!

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Drive Alaska with a GPS audio tour. Everything from photo stops and points-of-interest, to wildlife information and history, to authentic Alaskan stories.  Your own personal tour guide played through your phone. It's like having a knowledgeable Alaskan friend with you as you journey the last frontier.

Authentically alaskan. wildly entertaining find us on the app stores.

Essential and cost-effective.  Perfect if you're traveling Alaska in a rental vehicle or RV. 

Fun Times As You Drive Alaska

Purchase and download the tours with Wi-Fi or in town with good data coverage, then the GPS will do the rest, no cell service required.

Easy to use!

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Purchase tours.

Give permission in settings for the app to use your GPS in Location Services. Android users may want to set their phone to never sleep.

Connect your phone via cord or bluetooth to your car audio and we'll give the tour while you drive! 

We have hours and hours of content and are adding more as quickly as we can. Here's just a sample.

Our Summer 2024 Update will include the two tours in Denali and raise the price of Bundle Them All. Save a few dollars by purchasing the bundle now, and the Denali Tours will automatically upload when the updates go live!

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Denali Park

The tours play in either direction. For example, if you drive from Anchorage to Seward, you can begin the tour in Anchorage or Seward, whichever is most convenient for you. 

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Denali Park Entrance/ Savage River

Written by a former Denali Park tour guide. Enjoy the drive from the Park Entrance to Savage River and back to the Park Entrance. Where to stop to see Denali, lots of things to do, and tons of Park Info!

Approximately 1 hour out and back.

Denali Park Savage River/ Teklanika Campground

Written by a former Denali Park tour guide. If you're lucky enough to have a permit to travel past the Savage River check station, you'll want to listen to this tour as you drive the Denali Park Road.

Anchorage - Seward

One direction tour you can begin in Anchorage or Seward. See Turnagain Arm and Resurrection Bay with wild mountain passes in between. Look for beluga whales and take a hike on the historic Iditarod Trail.  

Approximately 2 1/2 hours one way. 

Tern Lake - Homer

One direction tour you can begin in Homer or Tern Lake. See the beautiful scenery of Kachemak Bay to the junction of the Seward Highway at Tern Lake. Follow the banks of the Kenai River and the shoreline of the Cook Inlet to see volcanos. We'll talk about salmon, halibut, and the many groups of people who have been using the land for thousands of years. 

Approximately 2 1/2 hours one way.

Anchorage - Talkeetna

One direction tour you can begin in Anchorage or Talkeetna. See the urban metropolis of Anchorage, the frontier town of Talkeetna, and the lakes and forests in between. Learn about life in Bush Alaska and see a forest in rebirth several years after a forest fire. 

Talkeetna - Denali National Park

One direction tour you can begin in Talkeetna or Denali National Park. Drive through some wild country. You'll be in a great position to see the tallest mountain in North America, Denali. Stop by the Veterans Memorial. Go for a hike. It's epic!

Fairbanks - Denali National Park

One direction tour you can begin in Fairbanks or Denali National Park., from the historic gold mining district of Fairbanks to Alaska's crown jewel, Denali. Learn about the northern forests, some of the animals that live in it, and history of the great land. 

Wildlife Safety

Free with purchase of any tour

Curious about what to do if you see a bear? Do you know how to escape a charging moose? We have some information that will help you stay safe as you travel the wildest state in the country.  

Enjoy The Scenery

Lot's of stops. Have fun.

You're in good hands. The writers love Alaska and have a great deal of experience adventuring along the highways, trails, and rivers. Try not to rush between destinations. Make lots of stops. Enjoy the drive. 

Audio Tour Alaska  was 100% worth the purchase price! I had done extensive research plotting out my road trip, but the tour had suggestions, information and stops that I would have driven right past had I not known! Thanks for a wonderful product

So glad this was recommended to us. It was like having a professional guide in the passenger seat beside us. Highly recommend. 

hikers-surbhi

We downloaded this app to listen to in the car while on vacation. It made for great stories, history and geography of the area. Absolutely loved it. 

This app changed my whole trip for the better! I bought the Milepost and barely used it. This app is all you need!

Meet the Guides

Voice actor and artist, every moment that Ranger is out of the recording booth is spent hiking, biking, skiing, and just taking in the glory of Alaska.  https://www.rangerhfox.com/

Writer/Narrator

Writer, tour guide, professor, pilot, fisherman, and family man, Gunnar loves experiencing Alaska and sharing Alaska history, science, and culture with visitors.

We love Alaska and want to protect its natural resources for future visitors to see and experience. We aim to provide entertaining and educational tours that are Fun and Formative with a functional and intuitively designed GPS based app.  

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Offer Your Guests the Ultimate Audio Experience

With a wide range of options, Implecho’s wireless tour guide systems deliver crystal-clear sound quality and ease of operation, all within your budget — not to mention unrivaled service to back it up. Amplify your brand with the very best one-way or two-way audio communications, available to rent or buy nationwide US and Canada.

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Whether you need a one-way or two-way audio guide system, transmitters, receivers, assistive listening devices or noise canceling headsets, we’ve got you covered. Our in-stock solutions are ready to ship in as little as one day within the US and Canada. Explore our tour guide solutions and accessories below.

Highly versatile and user-friendly, the ListenTALK tour system by Listen Technologies comes with five different headset options based on the noise level of the surrounding environment, plus additional features.

• Effortless two-way or one-way communications
• Built in mic and one-button push to talk
• Noise-canceling technology
• Interpretation and assistive listening capabilities

Hold side-by-side presentations with up to six tour hosts or interpreters in full-duplex mode with no cross-talk. Plus, guests can ask questions or interact with other tour members with the push of a button.

• Industrial-strength
• Two-way or one-way programming
• Updated wireless charging
• NRR-rated headset options
• Ability to fine-tune mic sensitivity

Communicate with large and small tour groups in a wide range of environments with Sennheiser tour guide system, from noisy factory floors to bustling exhibit halls.

• One-way communications
• Handheld or hands-free microphone options
• Designed for simple, intuitive tour operation 
• Industry-leading wireless audio quality
• Tour groups synchronize with the push of a button

TourGuide Solutions TGS-900

The hands-free TGS-900 is ideal for tourism, brewery tours, walking tours, cruise ship tours, zoos, museums or any guided audio tour. Tour guide operators appreciate the portable carry kit with fast, drop-in charging.

• Superior, high quality performance both indoors and out
• Wide-ranging reception, great for mobile tours
• Ultra-lightweight receivers worn around the neck
• 12-unit and 24-unit options

Why Implecho?

When you need an audio communications partner who listens, learns and guides you to an ideal solution that fits your needs to a tee, rely on Implecho.

Our audio communication experts offer:

• Free demo options to ensure your satisfaction
• Customized configurations with exactly the number of headsets, microphones, charging stations and accessories you need
• Purchase and rental options for scalable solutions
• Personal training and tools to instill confidence
• All-inclusive on-site support upon request for larger events (includes unpacking, setup, training, sanitizing in between uses, repacking, return shipping and more)
• Extensive warranty and returns service

Whether renting or buying, we’ll take you through each step of the process, provide you with the tools and training you need and ensure your system works as it should.

“The entire process exceeded expectations. Your people are great, quick and prompt in responding.”

– RASHAAD PELT, THE CLOROX COMPANY

"Service was prompt and efficient. Product is more modern than other types of plant tour headsets."

– FAY POHOLKO, ALL WEATHER WINDOWS

“Very responsive in a crisis situation … Helped explore a few different solutions so we could make the best choice.”

– DEB RODAK, CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE CENTER

Tour Guide System Applications & Industries

All kinds of industries rely on one-way and two-way tour headsets to communicate their important messages. From manufacturing and tourism to events and festivals … and everything in between.

Explore the numerous types of tour events where our audio solutions and services are a fit — and learn how you can enhance your guest experience.

Configure audio systems to support facility and prospect tours, dealer events, shareholder meetings, training and language interpretation in a range of environments

Plant/Facility Tours

Provide professional audio headsets for presentations and breakouts, VIP events, media tours, exhibitions, product demos and more

Live Events & Tradeshows

Deliver engaging walking tours, cultural experiences and trip outings with systems designed for mobility and consistent reuse; outdoors, indoors, noisy or quiet

Attract new students and engage stakeholders with interactive campus tours, and present educational sessions where audio is a challenge, inside and outside

Tour headsets are ideal for daily walkthroughs, special events and language interpretation. Communicate your message safely and clearly above background noise

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Tour Guide System FAQs

A tour guide system is a wireless audio communication system used to communicate with an entire group simultaneously. It typically consists of a headset with a microphone and transmitter for the presenter (although handheld microphones can sometimes be used). Tour guests have headsets with receivers that allow them to hear the presenter loud and clear, even in noisy environments.

A tour guide speaks into a microphone to transmit their message wirelessly to a tour group. Guests wear earphones or headphones to hear the message. Some systems allow for interactive two-way communication with the touch of a button while others only allow the presenter to speak. Batteries are charged in a charging station and last for long periods of time.

Guided tours are conducted in a variety of settings, including manufacturing facilities, museums, historical sites, cruise ships, exhibit halls, demonstrations, college campuses, trade shows and much more. They can even be used for training, silent sessions and daily walkthroughs.

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Yes. In particular, our ListenTALK system can be configured to accommodate language interpreters to listen to a presenter on one channel and communicate to international guests on another, helping encourage a diverse and inclusive tour experience.

A customized demo kit typically includes four pre-programmed transceivers with headset mics and accessories. Some tour planners, however, will rent a full system with multiple units as a test run before they decide to purchase.

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Interpretive Solutions

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Award Winning Interpretive Solutions

Tour-Mate Systems Limited is an award winning interpretive solutions provider with clients all across the globe. We are a full service provider able to accomodate any request including ground-up content creation, interpretation consulting, and the purchase or rental of an interpretive system.

We have been offering Interpretive Solutions since 1988 and have worked with venues all over the globe. Millions of people have taken Tour-Mate tours in museums, art galleries, historic sites, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, national parks and commercial establishments. Our high quality, easy to use hardware and software, as well as our approach to content creation, ensures that each visitor has a significantly enhanced and memorable experience.

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Interpretive Products

We offer a variety of platforms for achieving your interpretive goals.

Fast service times

Our North American service depots allow for quick turnaround for repairs and maintenance.

Service Solutions

We offer multiple plans to ensure your system is always in perfect working condition, allowing you to choose the best route for your business

Our Edit software enables you to edit and change your tours over time, organizing them as you see fit!

We offer solutions that cater to differently-abled individuals, in hopes that our solutions are as accessible as possible.

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Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center

Museum of russian icons, sacramento history museum, henry morrison flagler museum, uss bowfin submarine museum & park, mission san juan capistrano.

“As a Museum that values the power of storytelling to teach, learn, and inspire our audiences on the history and lessons of the Holocaust, the Tour-Mate system enables our guides with a high-level of clarity and meaning to connect with our visitors on a personal and more intimate level. They have enabled us to grow our tour program for both student and adults, and allowed them to share the same galleries without diminishing the experience or effectiveness of the tour quality because the guides are able to have an almost “private” conversation with their groups, providing another level of human connection for both our docents and the visitors.”

Kelley Szany Director of Education

"I just wanted to let you know that setup of the audio tours went really well at all three centres and all devices are running well… Thanks again for all your help, we have to say that we’re so excited at how easy the pieces are to use and how it took just a few minutes to set everything up including the security alerts."

Jaclyn D’Souza Marketing Specialist, Visitor Centres

"The wands are certainly a hit. We’ll be looking to add more languages over the next few years and perhaps even more tour “stops” on each tour."

Kiran Gill Judge Manager, Visitor Centres

“The Museum of Russian Icons has been Tour Mate customers for twelve years. Visitors love being able to access so much additional content at their own pace.”

Tara Young Deputy Director

"We’re really happy with the TM600 Tour-Mate system, which serves The Sacramento History Museum’s three tour programs beautifully. The Museum needed to upgrade from a radio frequency sound system to digital, and Tour-Mate’s system provides improved sound quality with a price that fit our budget, and comes with extremely responsive service. The Tour-Mate units are lightweight and small (guides portray 19th Century characters and hide the transmitters in their costumes) and easy to maintain. And we know we’ll get a quick and friendly response to our maintenance and operations questions. That’s really important to us."

Tour Manager Sacramento History Alliance and Sacramento History Museum

"When we made the switch to TourMate Systems, inc. from a major competitor, we did so with confidence that both the products and the client services provided to us would be far superior than what we'd been served as the industry standard. The SC550 continues to be a customer favorite for its easy to use design and intuitive programming. The TourMate team on whole continues to exceed our expectations around every turn, nearly a decade after beginning to work with them."

Allison Flagler Museum

“We needed to refresh the audio tour of our submarine and museum and to explore content delivery options. We selected Tour-Mate after an industry wide search and have been thoroughly satisfied with our decision. The content creation process was interactive and the end result was a significant improvement over our previous version. Tour-Mate was an outstanding partner throughout the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and we look forward to working with them for years to come.”

"Mission San Juan Capistrano is a California mission, historic landmark, and museum located midway between Los Angeles and San Diego. We welcome 300,000 guests every year, and strive to share our mission of education, inspiration, and preservation with all who visit. Our audio tour, developed with Tour-Mate Systems, helps our organization provide a high quality educational experience to all who visit. It has been a pleasure working with Tour-Mate’s creative team in developing our tour, which incorporates, storytelling, music, and history. Our guests remark at the quality of the tour, and walk away with a better appreciation and understanding of the Mission’s significance as a historic, cultural and religious site. We are pleased with Tour-Mate’s top rate customer service and have found the entire system of audio tour equipment easy to use in our daily operations."

Megan Dukett Education and Interpretive Program Director

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Mount Rushmore

Outdoor audio tour.

For more than 10 years, guests at Mount Rushmore have relied on Tour-Mate's SC550 audio Wands...

Akustisher Stolperstein

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National Museum of the Pacific War

Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum and USS Bowfin

To learn more about the self-guided tours available at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, please click here .

Tour-Mate’s EB-100s provide a multilingual audio platform, appealing to foreign visitors as well as both visitors and residents with visual impairments. The stumbling stones and acoustic stumbling stones provide an opportunity for those in the 21st century to relate to the larger, traumatic histories of the 20th century, and learn about the often over-shadowed effects it had on individual lives that deserve to be remembered. To find where you may stumble upon one of the Stolpersteine, please click here .

This multilingual, rich multimedia App is available on any device with web browser access. To access the Museum of Russian Icons Web App, please click here .

For information on the Museum of the Pacific War and directions on getting to Fredericksburg from nearby Austin or San Antonio, TX, please click here .

The USS Bowfin, nicknamed the ‘Pearl Harbor Avenger’ is a decommissioned World War II Submarine and living memorial. The USS Bowfin conducted nine war patrols between 1943 and 1945 and sunk 44 enemy ships. The USS Bowfin, declared a National Historic Site in 1986, is apart of the Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum Association (PFSMA). The PFSMA completed a major renovation of the Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum in 2021. The museum was expanded and documents the history of the United States Navy’s Submarine Force during World War II, and the Cold War.

The Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum and the USS Bowfin feature audio tours using Tour-Mate’s SC600 mini wands. The SC600 mini wands utilizes RF triggering to trigger the USS Bowfin Submarine audio tour without the need for visitors to press a stop number. The audio tours were written and produced by Tour-Mate and narrates the history of the USS Bowfin and life in the submarine for the U.S Navy. The combined Bowfin/Museum tours feature both adult and children’s tours and are available in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin.

With about 400,000 annual visitors (2019), the Deputy Director of the Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum, Rafael Escalera expressed how Tour-Mate’s audio tours enhance their visitors’ museum experience. Escalera stated that “without Tour- Mate, our visitors would miss about 50% of the information we hope they receive.”

If you want to learn more about Tour-Mate Systems audio tours at the USS Bowfin and the Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum, please click here

Tour-Mate Systems has been working with BC Hydro since 2017 to help provide educational audio tours at each of its three Dams. The Revelstoke Dam Visitor Center is one of the most powerful dams in British Columbia while the Powerhouse at Stave Falls is a 100-year-old powerhouse, designated as a National Historic Site in Canada. The W.A.C Bennett Dam is one of the world’s largest earth-fill structures.

Using Tour-Mate’s SC600 Listening Wands and SC600 Mini Listening Wands, BC Hydro delivers engaging audio tours about the history of the dams and how it powers the province. The SC600 and SC600 Mini are easy to use audio wands that allow visitors to take the tour at their own pace. The Listening Wands have a 50 language/tour capability and can store up to 999 primary messages. BC Hydro’s audio tours are translated into 10 languages including French, Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese and Punjabi.

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Steve Bannon and guest Mike Davis lay out ways a Trump White House can prosecute its enemies

Bannon: “We're going after you. The hunted are going to become the hunters.”

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 04/24/24 12:09 PM EDT

Citation From the April 24, 2024, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room

MIKE DAVIS (ARTICLE III PROJECT): If the Supreme Court does not rule the right way and protects the presidency and therefore our country, that means the Trump 47 Justice Department can indict President Obama for capital murder, along with now-Judge David Barron on the First Circuit Court of Appeals, who was his legal advisor at the time, for their drone strike — extrajudicial drone strike — on two American citizens, including a minor. Capital murder.

The Trump 47 Justice Department can also indict Biden and Mayorkas and his advisors for their illegal mass parole and release of illegal immigrants into America and their resulting crimes.

Do the Democrats, does Liz Cheney, do these Democrats really want to go down this path, where the president of the United States and his advisors are not immune from criminal prosecution for their official acts?

STEVE BANNON (HOST): The only reason it's existing is that nobody has the stones to kick down the door and say guess what? We're going after you. The hunted are going to become the hunters.

We're going to force Jim Jordan, and that feckless, hapless staff of his to stand up and be men and go after this.

Kid Cudi cancels tour: Ankle broken at Coachella is ‘much more serious,’ needs surgery

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Kid Cudi is canceling his upcoming Insano: Engage the Rage World Tour after finding out his broken ankle is “much more serious” than he thought.

“Guys, so, I have a broken calcaneus,” Cudi posted Wednesday on social media. “Im headed to surgery now and there’s gonna be a long recovery time. We have to cancel the tour so I can focus on getting better to be out there in top shape to rage with you all.”

Kid Cudi is ‘hoping’ his Coachella broken ankle will be healed in time for Insano tour

Kid Cudi offers an update on the ankle he broke jumping off the Sahara stage on the last day of Coachella 2024. He seems upbeat, albeit a little uncertain.

April 23, 2024

The calcaneus is more commonly known as the heel bone. While some ankle fractures can heal in weeks, a broken calcaneus has a longer recovery time. “This type of fracture commonly occurs during a high-energy event — such as a car crash or a fall from a ladder — when the heel is crushed under the weight of the body,” the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons says on its website . Surgery is often required to prevent heel deformity.

This, friends, is why you don’t jump off one of the tallest stages at Coachella.

“There’s just no way I can bounce back in time to give 100%,” Cudi said. “The injury is much more serious than I thought.”

The U.S. leg of the Insano tour was supposed to start June 28 in Austin, Texas, and conclude with a show in Los Angeles on Aug. 30. Kid Cudi planned to head to Europe in early 2025; it’s unclear whether that part of the tour is still on.

Drake removed from lawsuit over Astroworld crowd crush that left 10 fans dead

A judge removes Drake, who performed with Travis Scott at the 2021 Astroworld concert, from a suit filed by families of the 10 fans who died in a crowd crush.

April 12, 2024

The rapper said that ticket holders will be contacted by email and receive a full refund. Also, new tour dates will be announced as soon as possible.

In a video posted earlier this week and captured by TMZ , Kid Cudi said with a chuckle, “This is what happens when a 40-year-old man tries to prance around offstage like he’s 26, like he used to do back in the day.” He added that he was “hoping” to be healed up in time to hit the road.

So much for that idea.

“I’m so sorry fam and I love you all so much, thanks for the endless love and support. Im really disappointed as im sure you guys are too, but I will be back. Thats a promise,” the rapper wrote Wednesday.

“Im ok, just a lil soreness, but im in good spirits.”

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Bob Heil, Whose Innovations Enhanced the Sound of Rock, Dies at 83

A groundbreaking audio engineer, he provided the large-scale systems that brought tours by the Who and the Grateful Dead to life.

By Alex Williams

Bob Heil’s career as a groundbreaking sound engineer who brought thunder and rich sonic coloring to tours by rock titans like the Grateful Dead and the Who began behind a pipe organ in a 1920s movie palace.

Mr. Heil, who helped usher rock into its arena-shaking era by designing elaborate sound systems that allowed rock juggernauts of the late 1960s and ’70s to play at volcanic volumes, first learned to appreciate the full spectrum of musical tones as a teenager, when he took a job playing the massive Wurlitzer pipe organ at the opulent Fox Theater in St. Louis.

“We had to voice and tune 3,500 pipes, from one inch to 32 feet,” he said in a 2022 video interview with the audio entrepreneur Ken Berger. “Voicing taught me to listen. Very few people know how to listen. Listening, you’ve got to mentally go in and dissect.”

Mr. Heil died on Feb. 28 of cancer in a hospital in Belleville, Ill., his daughter Julie Staley said. He was 83. His death was not widely reported at the time.

Although he worked behind the scenes, Mr. Heil was enough of a force that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland credited him with “ creating the template for modern rock sound systems” In 2006, the Hall installed a public display containing his mixing boards, speakers and other items.

“The concert business became what it is today because he made the experience so much better for the customers,” Howard Kramer, who at the time was the Hall of Fame’s curatorial director, said in an interview that year with The Houston Chronicle. “No one made the leaps in live sound that he did.”

Mr. Heil got started in the business in 1966. Up to that point, top rock ’n’ roll bands often had to rely on feeble sound systems that were drowned out by screaming fans. That roar, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones wrote in his 2010 autobiography, “Life,” was often so deafening in the band’s early days that audiences could hear nothing more than the drums: “We used to play ‘Popeye the Sailor Man’ some nights, and the audience didn’t know any different.”

Mr. Heil gave rock shows the sound arsenal they needed. “We were the first company back then to build a package P.A .,” he said in a 2008 interview with the audio magazine TapeOp. “You could come to Heil Sound in 1972 and leave the facility with a complete system: snakes, road cases, everything — even a modular mixer.”

He also put a distinctive stamp on 1970s rock with the Heil Talk Box, an effects pedal that transformed guitar parts and vocals into an interstellar drone. Joe Walsh used it in memorable fashion on his hit “Rocky Mountain Way” in 1973, and the Talk Box was a signature of Peter Frampton’s monster-selling 1976 double album, “Frampton Comes Alive!”

Mr. Heil’s career took a major turn in 1971, he told Mr. Berger, when a manager for the Who frantically called him in St. Louis, asking if he could get his crew to Boston the next day. The opening show there, part of the band’s tour in support of its hallowed album “Who’s Next,” had been a disaster, with one newspaper noting that the band’s “soaring brand of rock could not be heard” under the venue’s “miserable conditions.”

Roger Daltrey, the band’s lead singer, threatened to fly back to England until Mr. Heil arrived with his rig. When Mr. Daltrey “did the sound check,” Mr. Heil recalled, “it was OK, because it was a monster P.A.” He would work with the Who for the next decade.

Robert Gene Heil was born Oct. 5, 1940, in St. Louis, the elder of two children of Robert and LaVerna (Bills) Heil. His parents owned a clothing shop in the small town of Marissa, Ill., about 40 miles east of St. Louis.

As a youth, Bob not only played the accordion and the organ but also became a ham radio enthusiast, which gave him an early opportunity to fiddle with electronics. After graduating from Marissa Township High School in 1958, he spent time studying at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and the St. Louis Institute of Music.

In 1966 he opened Ye Olde Music Shop in Marissa, where he rented Hammond organs and repaired instruments for professional musicians. He also began to design his own audio systems.

Before long, he was supplying them to country acts like Dolly Parton and Little Jimmy Dickens as they came through St. Louis. His big break came in 1970, when management of his old employer, the Fox Theater, called him and told them of a crisis: The Grateful Dead was set to play there, but the band’s P.A. system had been confiscated by authorities in a drug raid.

On a subsequent call with Mr. Heil, Jerry Garcia, the band’s lead guitarist and vocalist, “almost dropped the phone” when he learned that Mr. Heil had a sophisticated system featuring an amplifier by McIntosh, the high-end audiophile brand, Mr. Heil told Mr. Berger. Performing Musician magazine later called the resulting concert “the night that modern live sound was born.”

In addition to his daughter Ms. Staley, Mr. Heil is survived by his wife, Sarah (Benton) Heil; another daughter, Barbara Hartley; a stepson, Ash Levitt, the president and chief executive of Heil Sound; a sister, Barbara Schneidewind; and seven grandchildren. Both daughters are from his first marriage, to Judy Mortensen, which ended in divorce.

By 1980, Mr. Heil had grown weary of life on the road, so he created a new line of headsets and microphones for the ham radio industry. At one point, Joe Walsh, another ham enthusiast, told him he wanted to use one of his microphones onstage.

Mr. Heil protested that the microphones were not concert quality. Mr. Walsh disagreed. “I was at his house and went downstairs to his little studio and he proved it to me,” Mr. Heil told TapeOp. “So I had to start listening all over again.”

Alex Williams is a reporter in the Obituaries department. More about Alex Williams