Creating your audio tour recordings

Introduction

Audio tours need to do more than relay information - they need to guide, engage and help visitors connect with a place, object or story. Whether you are producing museum guides, heritage interpretation, attraction audio, walking tours or tourist bus commentary, we provide a studio-quality recording service built around clarity, atmosphere and audience engagement.

Recording Workflows for Audio Tours

You can choose the workflow that best suits your production team:

• Undirected sessions - provide your script and guidance, and we’ll record clean, consistent audio ready for review.

• Directed sessions - join live via Zoom, Teams or your preferred platform to guide pronunciation, tone, pacing and emphasis in real time.

Directed sessions are especially useful for place names, historical references, culturally specific material and multilingual visitor content.

Choosing Voices for Visitor Experiences

Audio tour projects often need a voice that feels informative without sounding dry. Some briefs call for warmth and accessibility, while others need a more authoritative or characterful guide. We can recommend voices for museums, heritage sites, tourist attractions, app-based tours and multilingual visitor experiences.

How Much Does an Audio Tour Recording Cost?

Pricing for audio tour recordings typically depends on:

• Word count – common for fixed-script museum or attraction guides

• Session time – often used for directed sessions or evolving scripts

• Language and localisation requirements

• Voice artist experience and market rate

• Whether you would like other production elements, such as music, sound effects

Some voices command a premium based on reputation or specialist experience, but if you’re working to a defined budget, we can suggest suitable artists who meet both creative and financial requirements.

Audio Tour Delivery Formats and File Structure

After recording, we professionally clean the audio by removing errors, false starts and unwanted noise. We can also split, label and structure files to suit your delivery platform - whether that is a museum guide system, tourist bus playback system, app-based audio player or location-triggered tour platform.

You’ll usually receive two versions:

• Unprocessed audio; clean, raw studio recordings

• Processed audio; EQ’d and dynamically treated, ready for immediate use

Voice Demos and Previous Work

Below you’ll find demo samples from voice artists who regularly work on audio tour projects.

Where permissions allow, we can also share examples of completed museum audio guides, visitor attraction tours and tourist audio projects. Much of this work is confidential, but we’re happy to discuss relevant experience in detail.

Alternatively, if you prefer a more hands-on workflow, our voiceover directory allows you to browse artists, listen to audio tour demos and work directly with the recordings yourself.

Find here: Voiceover Directory: audio tours.