Audio guide

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An audio guide to the Louvre in Paris in Korean (2008)

Audioguide (in German also "audio guide") is an artificial word made up of "audio" (Latin: "I hear") and "guide" (English: "Führer", meaning museum guide ). Audio guides are sound recordings that can be played on appropriate devices or mobile phones and were originally developed as electronic museum guides. But they are now also popular as city guides.

In terms of genre history, the audio guide can be assigned to the audio book , although it was developed independently of this and, in contrast to the traditional audio book, is often only rented out (and not sold). There are numerous versions of electronic museum guides. Another variant has come onto the market in recent years under the name “ Multimedia Guide ”: Internet offers and apps for smartphones and tablets are also being added.

A variant of the audio guide is the installation of signs at sights on which u. a. a phone number is applied. Tourists, especially tourists who decide spontaneously, can call the telephone number with their mobile phone and receive a detailed description of the sight in front of which they are currently standing.

Examples

• The Berlin start-up City Pirates offers free tours by public transport and on foot (currently two tours in Berlin - Hamburg and Munich are being planned.)
• The audio guide Freiburg-Weingarten lets residents of the district have their say via mobile device and on a web map.
• In Berlin, Stadt im Ohr runs through Mitte, Friedrichshain, Wedding and Friedenau.
• Educational project Munich listen 2013 Project of the Bavarian Radio and the media learning workshop of the Pedagogical Institute

Web links

Wiktionary: Audioguide  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Miriam Sandabad: Museum on site: How digital curating changes art . In: Zeitfragen. Deutschlandradio Kultur. June 24, 2015. Accessed on June 25, 2015 ("The tours in the museum are increasingly rarely led by museum guides. Often the visitors get an audio guide in their language. But now these tour audios have got alternative brothers and sisters: apps, audio walks and Network museums. ")
• Listen to audio guides from various museums online at museum.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Soon we will also be represented in Munich! • City Pirates. In: City Pirates. Retrieved January 14, 2019 (German). 
2. ↑ Soon we will also be represented in Hamburg! • City Pirates. In: City Pirates. Retrieved January 14, 2019 (German).