Comparison of advantages and disadvantages of several voice guidance methods in scenic spots

Audio guide equipment is mainly used for sightseeing, especially for the explanation of museums, exhibition halls, art palaces, tourist attractions and other places. Usually, this kind of audio navigation equipment is divided into several ways, and each way has its own advantages and disadvantages and applicable places. If necessary, you can choose your own audio navigation equipment according to local conditions.

1. Use the recorded recording navigation device for navigation.

Visitors rent relevant recording and guiding equipment at the entrance according to where they want to go.

Advantages: visitors can choose their own interesting exhibits or choose tour guide equipment to visit and study, and visitors can walk freely.

Disadvantages: Due to the limitation of storage capacity, each scenic spot is a recorded fixed voice, which often fails to provide more comprehensive knowledge that tourists want to acquire and lacks interactivity. In addition, it is huge and difficult to attract children to use it. Visitors with hearing impairment cannot use it either.

The narrator wears a small voice amplifier to guide the tour.

A commentator wears a megaphone to lead a group of tourists to explain the scenic spots.

Advantages: it can answer questions immediately, with strong interaction and humanization.

Disadvantages: Visitors must follow the instructor step by step and listen carefully to the explanation, which brings inconvenience to visitors' study and is easily affected by multiple teams and environmental noise. The number of commentators is limited, so it is not cost-effective to train professional commentators.

3. Visitors can operate the tour by themselves with the guide machine.

Users manually input the number of exhibits and report related voice information through handheld navigation equipment.

Advantages: Visitors can walk freely and play corresponding audio explanations as needed.

Disadvantages: large volume and complicated operation, which reduces the user's willingness to operate.

4, infrared automatic induction voice guidance.

An infrared emitting probe is installed in front of the booth, and users carry hand-held navigation equipment into the infrared sensing area of the exhibition (generally 2-5 meters). After receiving the signal from the probe, the hand-held navigation equipment automatically broadcasts the voice information related to the exhibits.

Advantages: no user operation is required at all, and it is simple and convenient.

Disadvantages: Not controlled by users. Sometimes users still want to listen to the information of the exhibits when they leave, but the handheld navigation device will automatically cut off the previous audio playback after receiving the information from other probes. If adjacent compartments are close together, the probes will interfere with each other. Infrared rays are easily blocked by human body. If the handheld device is in the wrong direction, it may not be able to sense the signal.

5. Interpreter's voice guide.

A commentator wearing a translator transmitter leads a group of tourists wearing receivers. The third and fourth methods mentioned above are mostly used in indoor exhibitions, such as museums and exhibition halls, and commentators are suitable for indoor and outdoor exhibitions.

Advantages: portable, easy to carry, easy to operate, interactive, flexible in speech explanation content, free to walk, strong in anti-interference, clear in speech, long in distance (such as Keyinda speech guide and explanation device, which can be listened within the range of150m), tourists can choose their own listening content (the receiver can be turned off for those who don't want to listen), with low cost, no need to install, and can wear it in pairs.

Disadvantages: the cost of the commentator.