Wireless Tourguide System for National Hire in the UK.

Apple Sound Tour guide systems offer clear communication in different environments - maximum flexibility with minimum fuss.

The system does away with sore throats for tour guides, confusion and frustration for tour groups. Systems can be used for guided tours in factories, factory sites, museums, on coaches, or outdoors, etc.

Can also be used as a mini interpretation (simultaneous translation) system.

Tourguide systems are available for daily rental. For rates click here.

1. What is Tourguide?
2. Where is it used?
3. What does it do for you?
4. What types are available?
5. Should you buy or rent?
6. How many systems can I use at once?
7. Typical examples

1. What is a Tourguide System?
A typical Tourguide System comprises a wireless microphone and a number of wireless receivers. The ‘Guide’ or ‘Interpreter’ talks into the microphone and the delegates or visitors listen to the commentary or translation through a headset or headphone. The message will get through to the visitor clearly without the guide having to shout to compete with noisy machinery or interrupt a meeting whilst they provide a translation.

The microphone can either be hand held, or a head worn or tie clip version with a belt pack transmitter. The receivers can be a head worn stethoset, or headphones connected to a belt pack receiver.

Using a Tour Guide system means your guides won’t have to shout so they will still be in good voice at the end of a busy day; your visitors will hear every word clearly which means they are far less likely to lose interest and will remember their experience favourably.

2. Where is a Tourguide System used?
Tourguide Systems are portable and easy to use which means they can be used anywhere that the background noise, the need for discretion or the need for many people to hear what is being said, makes normal conversation difficult.

Tourguide systems are used in factories for showing visitors round, for training where machinery noise makes it hard for trainees to hear their instructors, for staff meetings on the shop floor, for safety inductions.

Tourguide is ideal for any situation in a factory where it is important to get the message across above the general factory background noise. The multi channel feature allows several different tours or groups to operate at the same time without interfering with each other.

In visitor attractions for letting visitors know what they are experiencing. Tourguide is superb for any guided tour, indoors or out. Your visitors can hear your guide without being distracted by traffic noise. The system also means that the guide can talk to many visitors at once without having to shout. This is great for sensitive areas such as cathedrals and other places of interest where raising ones voice is not the ‘done thing’.

In public meetings as an interpretation system. The interpreter can simply sit at the back of the room and whisper the translation into the microphone. Delegates wishing to hear the translation collect a receiver at the start of the meeting and listen in. Tourguide systems operate on different frequencies which means that several different languages can be catered for at the same time.

3. What does it do for you?
A Tourguide system allows you to communicate effectively to a group of people, either large or small, overcoming irritating background noise, without having to shout. Your visitors will hear every word, will not lose interest or struggle to understand your message. Your guides will be able to run several tour a day without getting a sore throat, and without the frustration of having to repeat things so that everyone can hear. Your visitors will leave you having had a good experience, will remember their visit and appreciate that you are a professional organisation which places a strong emphasis on looking after their visitors.

4. What types are available?
All systems comprise one or more microphones and a quantity of receivers. Microphones can be hand held which include the wireless transmitter in a single unit, or headworn connected to a belt-pack transmitter.

Receivers can be stethoset type, ie hanging down from the ears with a built in wireless receiver, single earphone or headphone which are plugged into a belt pack wireless receiver. There are also options for individual neck worn loop receivers for hearing aid users.

5. Should you buy or rent?
Buying or renting the system depends on how often you are likely to use the system. Most of our customers start off by renting a system on two or three occasions before deciding that they cannot do without it. We have several customers who have bought a system to cater for their regular events, and then hire in further systems for occasional larger events such as open days.

Either way you can be sure of a first class service from Apple Sound. Our hire fleet comprises over 300 receivers with 10 or 20 way systems available to hire by the day or week.

Before you hire from Apple Sound, we will take the time to discuss with you how you are going to use the system. We can then advise how to get the best from the equipment and set it all up for you before we despatch it.

If you are using more than 1 system, we will colour code both transmitter and receivers so you can get on with using the system as son as you unpack it. We also test every receiver and the transmitter before despatching to ensure trouble free operation.

6. How many systems can I use together?
Our hire systems operate on six different frequencies, three are license exempted, and we can arrange the licence for the other three. This means that six different systems can be used together, either for six different groups doing the same tour, or for translation into six different languages. For larger events spread over a large area, careful planning can allow frequencies can be duplicated which will allow larger numbers of groups. For such events we normally supply a technician to manage the use of Tourguide for the whole event and oversee the allocation of the various frequencies to different groups.

You can also use large numbers of receivers together as a single system, for example to provide interpretation at large public meetings. Attendees have the choice of listening to the speaker, or listening to an interpreter through the Tourguide Receiver. This is a very popular use of the system in bi-lingual countries such as Wales.

7. Typical Examples
Our systems are used by many companies throughout the United Kindom.

Examples are:

Guiness Packaging in Runcorn use their system to enable supervisors to take part in planning meetings held on their noisy shop floor. A single hand held microphone is passed around to whoever needs to talk. This has the advantage that only the person actually holding the microphone can talk.

The Kellog Co. in Wrexham use their system for training. A supervisor can talk directly to trainees at the side of noisy machinery which means they do not have to leave the machine whilst receiving instruction. The system is also used for factory tours.

This list is a representative sample of our customer base. It is not intended to indicate official endorsement of Apple Sound by all the organisations listed as many of which are restricted from doing so.

Find out more
	by reading about the current rates for hiring a Tourguide System
	by reading about Beyerdynamic Tourguide
	by reading about Sennheiser InfoPort Tourguide
	by making an enquiry