Here we have gathered the FAQ regarding problems with the display of various items – museums, tours, museum exhibits, points of interest, etc. in the mobile audio guides.
I cannot find my museum (tour) in the izi.TRAVEL mobile app.
Several museum exhibit items are not visible in the mobile app.
Voice-over for your audio guide
You can do the voice-over for your tour right in the CMS.
We strongly recommend to use Text to speech only for testing.
Published audio guides must have genuine Voice Over.
Text to speech
It is a computer synthesized voice which will automatically vocalize the text you typed in. This feature is perfect to get a quick demo of your tour and to test your tour, for instance the length of your stories etc.
Quiz questions are designed to be added to the audio guide game elements. They can be added to objects such as tours, museums, attractions, collections, and exhibits, but the quiz questions are in most demand for “Quest” style tours . For this type of tour, the correct answer determines whether or not the user can continue on the tour.
The “Add quiz” command has been provided to add a question to an object.
You can place on the museums, tours, exhibits or attractions pages of your audio guide links to other museums or tours from the izi.TRAVEL CMS database. In this way, you can recommend a visit to the museum or trying another tour.
You can place information about the museum sponsors on the museum audio guide page.
Your sponsors will visualised in the information section of your museum guide or your city tour. You can see an example of how to display sponsor-related information in the image below.
With izi.TRAVEL CMS you can see all museum and tour reviews and ratings submitted by moble application users. This information can be found in the «Reviews» section 1.
The “Reviews” section consists of the list of objects (museums and tours) 2 and Reviews panel 3.
Before you publish the audio guide, we recommend verifying that all of its components (main page, exhibit items, tourist attractions, etc.) have a description, audio story, and illustrations. This is done in the audio guide check mode.
This mode can be enabled from the main pages of museums, collections or tours by pressing “Check” 1.
The Visits Statistics section is located on the izi.TRAVEL CMS desktop.
One of the ways to promote an audio guide is by placing the izi.TRAVEL widget on your site. The widget can contain information about both the audio guide as a whole (a museum or tour) and an individual story (a museum exhibit or point of interest). To place it on your web-site you need to follow three simple steps:
Starting with version 5.0, the Android operating system lets you configure your smartphone or tablet to work with only one application. For example, you can configure your smartphone to work only with izi.TRAVEL. Then, the smartphone is transformed into an audio guide that you can rent to museum visitors.
To turn your smartphone into an audio guide, carry out the following steps: