Live Audio for Guided Tours

Give your tour group a live audio feed on their own phones — no rental headsets, no shared equipment, no app to install. The guide broadcasts from their browser, and participants listen from theirs.

The Challenge with Traditional Tour Audio

Traditional tour guide systems require carrying a transmitter unit, distributing receivers to participants, collecting them at the end, and managing battery life and sanitation. They are expensive, logistically complex, and increasingly uncommon as everyone already has a smartphone in their pocket.

OpenedMic replaces the hardware with a browser tab. The guide opens a room on their phone or laptop, displays a QR code, and the group joins immediately — each person through their own earphones, at their own comfortable volume.

How Tour Guides Use It

1. Open openedmic.com/app on your phone or device.
2. Select Outdoor Tour mode — configured for wind rejection and heavy noise gate.
3. Show the QR code to the group or share the link before the tour starts.
4. Press MIC ON. The group hears you through their own earphones for the rest of the tour.

No equipment to distribute. No equipment to collect. No battery logistics. No sanitation concerns.

Outdoor Tour Mode

The Outdoor Tour broadcast mode is tuned for noisy, open-air environments:

• High-pass filter (120Hz) — rejects low-frequency wind rumble and street noise
• Heavy noise gate — suppresses ambient crowd, traffic, and environment noise between speech
• Aggressive compression — keeps the guide's voice clear and consistent even when volume changes during movement

Participants hear the guide clearly through their earphones regardless of how noisy the surrounding environment is.

The Participant Experience

Participants scan the QR code before the tour begins or tap a link shared in the group chat. Their browser opens the session. No account, no install, no permissions other than audio playback. They hear the guide live, at their own chosen volume, through their own earphones.

If someone steps away or falls behind, they continue to hear the guide — distance from the speaker is no longer a factor.

Inviting one participant to speak. When the guide wants to take a question or invite a brief comment from one participant, that participant taps Ask to speak. The guide approves a single participant at a time. Once approved, the participant is heard live by the whole tour group, then the guide ends the guest mic and continues. Controlled, one at a time, never an open conference call.

Frequently Asked Questions