Guide-U: Revolutionizing Group Tours

Introducing the latest in wireless communication

From Museums to Historic Houses, from Factories to Places of Worship; if your site attracts groups of visitors, Guide-U will help you move them effortlessly through it, providing tours of the highest quality and enhancing the visitors' experience.

We offer portable, wireless listening equipment designed to allow live tours to be successfully conducted for multiple groups simultaneously, even in the most noise-sensitive or crowded sites. Our products help tour groups overcome background noise and distance from a guide; they keep the group visitors' interest levels high and distractions to a minimum.

Guide-U is a breakthrough in group guiding equipment; no other product looks like it, or performs like it. From its sleek design to its high quality sound you will be amazed at how this small and lightweight, yet extremely durable unit can transform how you approach your group visitor experience.

Why use Guide-U?

Group visitors are a highly important element of any site's attendance but they bring specific challenges to site managers:

-   How do you ensure that group visits do not change the site's character or ambience?
-   How can the group leader communicate with the group without disturbing individual visitors?
-   How do you ensure that everyone in the group can hear the speaker - even if you are at the back of the group?
-   How can you increase the size of your groups without affecting the quality of the tour?
-   How can you have multiple groups touring a site simultaneously?
-   How do you differentiate your group service from other sites?
-   How can you supplement the live guide with pre-recorded or archive material that is available to individual visitors?
-   How can you provide group tours in multiple languages even if your group leaders only speak one languages?

With 50 years expertise in the field, Espro Acoustiguide Group has an unparalleled understanding of these issues and has developed solutions to overcome these problems.

Guide-U enables:

-   Clear communication for everyone, even in noisy environments or outdoors
-   Increased attentiveness, helping keep groups together even in open areas
-   Increased mobility by utilizing the latest wireless technology
-   The highest available sound quality
-   Guiding large groups at one time
-   Multiple tours to be given simultaneously
-   Pre-recorded audio to be relayed to the group at appropriate times, by linking the system with one of Espro Acoustiguide's handheld audio players.
-   User-friendly set-up and operation

The Guide-U system

The system comprises two main elements; the group leader wears a transmitter which is connected to a tiny hands free microphone and the group visitors wear a small neck-worn receiver which is connected to either headphones or a single earpiece.

Guide-U allows automatic setting of a single-frequency to a specific group

The group leader enters the selected frequency on their transmitter and by pressing one button, all required receivers are locked to this frequency. As a result, once the tour has started, the group visitors cannot change the frequency and be disconnected from the group.

Group Visitor Receiver

Guide-U can be used in a number of ways

For Live Tours
Using Guide-U, the group leader switches on the microphone and speaks at a normal level. Their voice is then transmitted via radio frequency to visitors in the group. It is picked up by the visitor's receiver and heard through the volume of the audio to suite their own preferences and they can listen clearly and without surrounding distractions. For hearing impaired visitors, the neck strap of the receiver may also act as an induction loop and transfer the audio directly to the user's hearing aid through induction, without the use of the headphones/earpiece.

Mixing Live and Pre-Recorded Commentaries
To combine a live tour and pre-recorded information or multilingual content, the group leader combines the Guide-U transmitter with any of Espro Acoustiguide's audio players. The leader can access a pre-recorded commentary from the audio player at any time and, just like the live commentary, the pre-recorded message is relayed to each visitor in the group via radio frequency.

Tours on the Road
Guide-U is also available for use on coaches and boats. On board passengers are provided with receivers and headphones/earpieces, through which they can listen to the pre-recorded audio content relayed from a central control unit, in multiple languages/frequencies. When leaving the coach or boat to visit sites, the group leader can easily synchronize all receivers to their own single frequency and commence a live tour by using their microphone.

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