Transform exhibition text into professional multilingual audio guides. Publish to visitors instantly. walkietalk.ie | [email protected] #museums #digitaltransformation #accessibility

Museum: We welcome international visitors! Also museum: Guide: English only If 40% of your visitors don't speak the local language, you're failing half your audience. The tech exists. The barrier is institutional, not technical. €399/month for unlimited multilingual guides that work instantly.

Modern museums could learn from that communal approach.

walking out of the museum into afternoon light is like surfacing from underwater. my eyes hurt. I’ve been holding my breath.

three strangers who all stopped at the same painting and just… started talking about it.

watching someone FaceTime their friend to show them an artwork they know they’d love.

love when museums put historical objects next to modern ones and suddenly you understand both better.

the museum security guard who’s been sitting next to the same Vermeer for 15 years probably has thoughts we should hear.

you ever notice how every museum bathroom is either: designed by a Scandinavian minimalist or hasn’t been updated since 1973 no in between

I do love when museum audio guides sound like someone’s telling you a secret at a funeral.

This article presents some food for thought regarding museum technology. Curious to hear what some of our members who work in museums make of it...

How We’re Building Museum #Technology That Gets Out of the Way. The uncomfortable truth about museum technology: we’ve spent two decades making phones more essential to the museum experience while simultaneously making them more intrusive thormartinbaerug.com/2025/11/05/h... #globalmuseum #museums

We spent 20 years making phones central to museum visits. Apps, hashtags, scans, signups, beacons, selfies - now we wonder why visitors stare at screens instead of art. I’ve written about what went wrong and how we can do better: thormartinbaerug.com/2025/11/05/h... #MuseumEd #VisitorExperience

New pricing based on your feedback: simple, transparent, unlimited, budget-friendly. €399/month (annual). Unlimited locations, exhibitions, chapters, 32 languages. Only cap: 2000 min/month audio (fraud protection— no museum hits this). Test free with Pilot: walkietalk.ie

QR code at the entrance, next to the artwork, or on a handout. Visitor scans, audio guide opens in their browser - automatically in their language. No signup, no app, no sharing details, no device checkout. Just: scan, listen. walkietalk.ie

Write your guide once, translate to 32 languages with one click - text and audio generated automatically. Already have recordings? Transcribe them first with one click, then translate. Not perfect, few things are, but way way better than "English only, sorry." Try with free Pilot: walkietalk.ie

Talked to a small museum yesterday. They were quoted €50K for a custom audio guide app. Then another €10K/year for updates. They have 20 staff members. This is why half the museums I visit have no audio guides at all. The pricing model is broken. We propose €399/month. For everything. That's it.

We just added a live text-to-speech demo to the website. Type anything in any language, hit "Create speech," and hear it in 32 different languages. It's oddly satisfying. Try it: walkietalk.ie

We built Walkie Talkie after years working with places like Copenhagen Contemporary and Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Learned what actually works vs. what looks good in a pitch deck. Turns out: simple, fast, and reliable beats fancy and complicated every time. 🏛️

How to instantly create multilingual audio guides with Walkie Talkie and serve diverse museum audiences. Article: walkietalk.ie/articles/mul... #MuseumED #MuseumTech #GEM #Audioguides #Visitorexperience

Why Museums should consider Walkie Talkie. Article: Creating Frictionless Museum Audio Guides: Design Principles for Visitor-Centered Experiences walkietalk.ie/articles/fri... #MuseumEd #GEM #MuseumTech

🎉 27 museums signed up to Walkie Talkie in 3 weeks! We're now seeking museum design partners to help shape our audio guide platform. We'll help create your content + discounted Year 1 pricing. Interested? Write us at [email protected] Best, Thor & Åsmund #museums #audioguides #partnerships

Walkie Talkie runs on reliable, fast servers in Frankfurt, Germany that are not owned by big tech. We chose EU hosting specifically because European privacy laws are stronger than US alternatives. #MuseumTech #MuseumEd #Museums

Building for museums has taught us that 'mobile-first' doesn't mean 'app-first.' Most visitors don't want another app cluttering their phone—they want instant access to deeper stories. Web browsers are the most universal platform we have. #Museums #MuseumEd #MuseumTech #CulturalHeritage

Did you know? We are also the creators of Opus Classics. A beautiful app classic literature and art.

Call us boring, BUT: The future of visitor experiences isn't in VR headsets, complex AR or reality bending AI - it's in making the technology we're already using work invisibly and effortlessly. Simplicity always wins. #MuseumTech #Audioguides #MuseumEd www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edni...

Strong contender for "Museum SoMe Manager of The Year" @themerl.bsky.social 🫡

700MB app downloads, device queues, content that takes months to update. The museum audio guide is broken. Time to fix it. Wrote for Medium about the quiet revolution happening in cultural institutions worldwide 🎧 #MuseumEd #Museums #VisitorExperience medium.com/@hello_49904...

Small museums, big dreams: You have incredible stories but tiny budgets. 💭 Walkie Talkie starts free. No setup costs, no hardware investment. Great storytelling shouldn't depend on deep pockets. We can always tailor to your needs. Drop us an email at: [email protected] #MuseumEd #MuseumTech

Happy International Museum Day! Museums are democracy in action - preserving memory while shaping how we see ourselves and each other. In our fractured world, they remain spaces where complexity is embraced and 'I don't understand' becomes invitation, not dismissal. #internationalmuseumday

This Hilma af Klint audio guide demonstrates the text-to-speech technology available on our platform - sounds pretty great, huh? You can also utilize existing recordings. Either way, visitors just scan a QR code to listen. #MuseumTech #MuseumEd #VisitorExperience

International Museum Day (on Sun 18/5) feels more relevant than ever - a celebration of spaces that anchor us to truth, beauty and shared understanding when so much feels adrift. Here's to the institutions that make space for nuance in a world that increasingly resists it! #internationalmuseumday

We believe so-called “generative AI” must only amplify your storytelling, NEVER control it. Translate? Yes. Polish? Yes. Suggest? Yes. Invent facts? Never! Visitor experiences are best handled by expert human curators, not fabrication-prone algorithms. Your expertise amplified→ No hallucinations.

5 years ago: "Nobody will scan QR codes" Today: Gestures broadly at every restaurant menu or tourist destination. The infrastructure is here. Your visitors know what to do. Time to give them something worth scanning. walkietalk.ie #MuseumTech #VisitorExperience #MuseumEd

"But our app is beautiful and MoMa is using the same one!" Doesn't matter if it's 700mb and never gets installed. QR → web → amazing audio guide. Sometimes boring, simple (and beautiful) is better. walkietalk.ie #MuseumTech #VisitorExperience #MuseumEd

Walkie Talkie is build and designed in Norway and Denmark. 🇳🇴🇩🇰 We're storing and running everything on secure EU-based servers in Frankfurt because privacy and security actually matters. Your data and content stays in Europe. Take that, Big Tech! 🇪🇺 #MuseumTech #Visitorexperience

So good to see a museum investing in exceptional recordings for evergreen exhibitions. We think there’s a place for both human and text-to-speech recordings in audio guide solutions, which is why our platform supports both.

We built this after watching most visitors give up at Step 1: Download our app! Now they scan a QR, it opens instantly, they listen. Turns out people actually WANT to use audio guides. They've just been turned off by downloads, sign ups and layers of app navigation to get to the actual experience.

From one museum person to another: we know the budget struggles, the tech headaches, the accessibility requirements, the last-minute donor requests... we built walkie talkie to solve ALL of it. Come see: walkietalk.ie #MuseumTech #Museums #MuseumEd #VisitorExperience #AudioGuides

Museum IT departments love us because there's literally nothing to maintain. No servers, no updates, no compatibility testing. Just works. one IT manager called it "suspiciously simple" - best compliment ever. See how it works: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edni... #MuseumTech #MuseumEd #Museums

That moment when education asks for audio guides in 5 more languages but there's no budget for recording... Text-to-speech saves the day. again. (and it actually sounds good now, not like a 90s robot). Listen to a demo here: walkietalk.ie/c/bZrf0Y1j Sign up for free: walkietalk.ie #MuseumEd

Want to hear a Walkie Talkie audio guide? Here's one we did for "Bridal Procession in Hardanger" by Adolph Tidemand and Hans Gude, 1848. Listen here: walkietalk.ie/c/5jAY8Wpo #MuseumTech #MuseumEd #AudioGuide #MuseumPros

What is @walkietalkieguides.bsky.social? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edni... #MuseumTech #MuseumEd #Museums

Walkie Talkie Walkthrough #4: Real-time Updates: Exhibition changed? Text updated in seconds, audio guide recording instantly refreshed in multiple languages, QR code stays the same. No more outdated information or waiting for recordings. #MuseumOperations #MuseumTech #MuseumEd #Flexibility

Meet the creators of Walkie Talkie: Åsmund has designed cultural experiences for over 15 years. Thor has nearly two decades product and business expertise from the cultural sector. #MuseumTech #DigitalCulture #MuseumEd

Walkie Talkie Walkthrough #3: Advanced text-to-speech technology saves thousands on voice recording costs. Natural-sounding voices in every language without hiring voice actors or recording studios. You can of course also add pre-recorded audio. #BudgetFriendly #Museumtech

Walkie Talkie Walkthrough #2: One text input, 32+ language outputs. Write once, reach global audiences automatically. Make your exhibits accessible to international visitors with zero extra work. #Multilingual #MuseumTech

Walkie Talkie Walkthrough #1: No app downloads needed! Visitors simply scan a QR code and instantly hear audio guides in their preferred language. No technical barriers between your content and your audience. #MuseumTech

We want everyone to be able to try Walkie Talkie on their collection/exhibition. You can create a free demo audio guide by using the module on walkietalk.ie And there's also a free-tier available, no credit card needed.