What is an audio guide?

Locations, destinations and exhibitions. They can all get a extra level of information and even a story through a sign or other means of displaying written. Audio guides picks up where static signs are not enough.

With audio, you can hear the information directly in your mobile phone. – The experience is usually comfortable and enhanced compared to text. With a narator in your own headphones your other senses are liberated to freely explore the environment. On this web site, you will find many examples that go beyond information and offers dramatized illustrations that both makes the place alive and gives further explanation.

Dramatization of audio guides bring the listener into a narrative with people in an environment. For example, in the historic audio guides where a dramatic and often theatrical dialogue illustrates the past and still provide accurate information in a more vivid experience.

Conversations between people who bring their own perspectives to a location, such as on the basis of expertise. Or interviews with people who in a better way than any spoken information can describe and give life to a place.

In visually interpreted audio guides a voce over describes what an eye can se for listeners with impaired vision. Beside descriptions of objects and environment the listener gets useful directions to the next station och point in a exhibition or a outdoor path.

Informative audio guides provide a factual spoken information. Read by a single voice from a script in a relatively simple productions. Elements of background noise can occur in these guides, such as birdsongs in nature walks.