The Automatic Audioguide
guidePORT represents the future of audioguide systems. Sennheiser have combined their fifty years of experience in radio and audio technology to produce a new and award-winning international product. Key features of guidePORT are high quality stereo audio, ease of use for visitors and staff alike. One of guidePORT's unique features is its ability to play audio automatically as the visitor approaches a particular area of interest. With no buttons to push, this automatic triggering leads to a more fluid and dynamic audio tour for the user.
A guidePORT system allows for up to 30 simultaneous tours. Children, adults and foreign language visitors can all be served by the same infrastructure, as can hearing impaired and visually impaired visitors. With the addition of the more info button on the receiver pack, visitors can find out more information about a particular subject area, allowing the tour to cope equally well with the enthusiast as the casual visitor.
Another unique feature of guidePORT is its ability to deal with real-time stereo audio sources from video or other audio-visual presentations. For example a visitor can approach a screen showing a video and hear the audio track in perfect lip-sync.
Key guidePORT Features
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guidePORT Equipment
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Each user has a receiver pack which downloads its audio from the guidePORT system automatically. Buttons allow you to control volume level, repeat the last audio segment, stop playback at any time or trigger more information. The 16-key receiver pack has buttons that allow information to be accessed as a conventional audioguide, with or without automatic triggering. |
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The receiver is fitted with a 3.5mm stereo jack socket compatible with a wide variety of earpieces and headsets. |
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A hearing aid adaptor allows the guidePORT receiver to be used by hearing impaired visitors. Simply place the loop of the adaptor around the neck, plug the adaptor into the headphone socket on the guidePORT receiver, and set the hearing aid to the 'T' setting. |
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Identifiers for indoor and outdoor use, trigger the audio for each specific exhibit as the visitor approaches. Identifiers have an adjustable trigger area, and a variety of triggering methods, and being battery powered give the freedom to change exhibits with ease. Importantly they can be located completely out of sight of the visitor. |
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A charger stores up to 10 receivers and can also download data from the receiver packs to the Statistics Manager software. |
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The cell transmitter stores the downloadable audio for each tour in a solid-state non-destructible format and provides the connection to any real-time audio sources. |
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Receiver packs download audio from antennae, strategically placed throughout the site and connected to the cell transmitters via Cat5 ethernet cable. This ethernet cable is the only cable infrastructure guidePORT requires. |