Tourist Attractions
Soundscape for buses, trains and boats
Soundscape GPS-triggered point of interest audio commentaries are, right now, entertaining passengers on open-top sightseeing buses, boats, trains and safari trips throughout Europe.
Some of these applications have been running since 2004 proving that the Soundscape system is robust and utterly reliable.
Perhaps you have existing audio commentary material that you'd like to have delivered to your customers automatically, or perhaps you are only at the very beginning of planning an automated commentary. Whatever your situation, Soundscape can usually take what you already system or material you already have and make it better - more engaging, more accurately delivered, more flexible, more reliable.
Because traffic flows are in constant and largely unpredictable flux, Soundscape uses such factors as location, direction of travel and speed of travel to permit delivery of different commentary pieces for any specific POI according to these and other variables as they exist at the time of delivery.
One commentary might ordinarily be heard at a given point of interest in free moving traffic yet if for any reason traffic slows or stops completely then other pieces will then play to expand upon the initial POI and take advantage of the slower movement.
Perhaps Tuesdays are a market day in the town being travelled through, or August 15th is the birthday of a town's famous son or daughter. Market day and 'on this day' commentaries can be played on the appropriate days and even, if needed, at the appropriate times (and tides). Perhaps dusk lends itself to the delivery of a certain commentary. Soundscape can play a different commentary according to the time of day.
In these and many other ways Soundscape technology works with the commentary material intelligently, on the spot, to deliver a magical, exquisitely appropriate audio experience for the listener. And ultimately what the listener hears is the only important matter - not how it is done
Some of the companies we work with:
Our customers say:
Crispin Avon, Sales Representative for City Sightseeing Denmark (Paaske Bus):
"The Soundscape system takes up relatively little space on the bus and is easy to use, with the driver being able to select the route and languages required at the beginning of each journey. So for example, if on the first tour, the bus had Japanese and Russian passengers on board, but the second tour has a group of French people, you can de-select a language that isn't required, for example, Polish and replace it with a commentary in French. This can all be done without the driver having to leave his seat or disconnect anything from the system.
"We also have the flexibility to author promo tracks, which only activate if the bus is in slow moving traffic, travelling under a certain speed. In addition, Soundscape allows us to author tracks which will only activate when the bus is on a diversion. All our authoring can be done 'in-house', which gives us the ability to take a bus out on the road and author a commentary to trigger just where we want it to.
"In a city environment, with small medieval streets and plenty of traffic lights, this is very important. Often a track will need to activate next to a certain post box or road sign, so that by the time the passengers turn to look, the Royal Palace that is being talked about will be in their eye-line. The system is unaffected if the bus travels over cobble-stones and it's possible to have separate commentaries for different tours, which travel in the same direction, down a common route."
Case Studies:
Port Lympne
