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Mobile technology for guided tours

Orpheo Canada offers a range of tour assistance products and services, ranging from automated tour guides to handheld media (audioguides, audiophones, visioguides, videoguides, PDA, GPS, VDA (visitor digital assistant), etc.).

IN THE SERVICE OF YOUR PROJECT! …ranging from “classic” or customized audioguides to tailor-made productions!

OFFER YOUR VISITORS SELF-GUIDED FREEDOM
The Orpheo Media interactive terminal is a platform for downloading self-guided tours onto your visitors’ multimedia players.

Millions of people get connected every day.
Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular with every passing day. Understandably so, since it affords maximum freedom of movement, allowing users to listen or watch whatever is they want to – when and how they want to. At this time, the recreation and tourism sector is the scene of experiments involving the new technologies. The objective is to facilitate access to content, whether original or specially designed, in keeping with the individual needs and pace of visitors. This approach also enables visitors to publish or broadcast comments to friends and family and thus make for a richer post-visit experience.

THE MARKET
Over the last several years, a revolution has occurred in the “directionality” of the content of self-guided tours used by the visiting public.
As museums and historic sites continue to grow in popularity, an increasing number of visitors prefer touring them with their own player or reader. Owing to their familiarity with their systems, visitors who download a self-guided tour from the Orpheo Media terminal are therefore sure to get the most out of their visit.

HIGH TECHNOLOGY
Advances in high technology are occurring at a rate faster than what our everyday environment enables us to notice. And yet, their impacts – in terms of major shifts in generational attitudes and visiting/ vacation habits – are no less tangible for all that.In this context, constant renewal is the rule, as there simply is no room for a lax service offering.Like high technology itself, tourism is today one of the sectors in which fluidity plays such a pivotal role. As a rule, behaviours change every year, thus making it imperative to adapt on an ongoing basis

Mobile Interactive Solutions
Self-service-style, the visiting public accesses the multimedia animation created to convey your message. Users view the pages of this animation at the tap of a touchscreen. The Orpheo Media terminal contains its own computer, which can be connected to a system or linked to a server. The open architecture of the animation allows you to update or modify content in keeping with your needs. Integrating interactive terminals in cultural sites – and particularly at locations that tourists are naturally drawn to – means gaining the capacity to communicate with them seamlessly, and in the language of their choice.

     • Record comments in several languages;
     • Upload content onto the Orpheo terminal from your own system;
     • Adapt to players offering MP3, M4A-or M4V compatibility;
     • Update content using media kiosk manager software;
     • ...etc.;

Discover a new facet of the world of audioguides with the Orpheo product range. We offer the Orpheo Compact or Classic model according to your type of project. And now discover our latest ORPHEO NEO, a multilingual wireless handheld (PDA), offering a variety of options, including GPS, RFID, WiFi, infrared, remote control, etcetera.

• Orpheo Neo: more than a PDA – a “visitor digital assistant” [ PDF spec sheet ]

• Orpheo Mini (NEW): the “featherweight” among audioguides [ PDF spec sheet in French ]

• Orpheo Compact: a compact audioguide [ PDF spec sheet ]

• Orpheo Classique: the audioguide used most by museums [ PDF spec sheet ]

• OrpheoKit: a package of 10 or 20 audioguides, designed for smaller sites

• OrpheoTGS AudioPhone: equip your set of receivers and your audioguides with an emitter [ PDF spec sheet in French ]

• OrpheoVisit: for city sightseeing

• OrpheoCamino: GPS-guided tour [ PDF spec sheet in French ]

Purchase or lease

        • For smaller and medium-sized sites, the ORPHEO Kit provides the basics for setting up an audioguided visit at little expense.
        • Pour larger sites or sites wishing to make an audioguided visit a standard component of their offering, ORPHEO Classic was designed with their
           needs in mind.
        • For temporary exhibits, our Guide-Man or ORPHEO audioguides are available for leasing by the day, week, month or year. They’ll be delivered with
           the soundtrack loaded, ready for use. Our production unit can also take charge of creating commentaries or simply load your audio contents into
           the devices.

Inaugurated in spring 2004, the ORPHEO audioguide product range has already won over many users thanks to its unique set of functionalities.