Tours & Museums
Find the Most Popular Systems for Tours and Events Requiring Mobility
Nothing forecasts that simultaneous translation requirements will be constraint to fixed locations. Many times, interpretation is necessary in events demanding high mobility, such as tour groups, employee trainings, business meetings and more. For this situations, from translation.equipment recommend FM portable language interpretation and tour-guide systems, or portable voice amplifiers, as the perfect solution for tour operators, travel agencies, cruise ships and airlines, hotels and resorts, museums, theme parks, and tourist attractions.
For museums, we recommend a portable solution, like the Enersound TSP system, which features a portable FM transmitter with 150-200ft of range. That will allow the visitors carrying the R-120 FM receivers to wander on their own, while still being able to listen to the tour guide with crystal clear quality.
We always recommend devices that use AA and AAAs for two main reasons: they do not present any fire hazard and can easily be replaced when they start degrading after a couple of years; unlike devices with built-in lithium batteries that sometimes cannot be removed, and even when they can, it can be very difficult to find the exact model to replace them.
FM systems like the Enersound TSP are expandable to an unlimited number of receivers, or to as many as you can fit within the transmitter range, which is about 150-200 ft.
The same transmitter can be used for either sound amplification to listen to a tour guide in your own language or for simultaneous interpretation into a foreign language. But you will need two transmitters if you have participants requiring listening assistance in the same language of the tour guide in a noisy environment and simultaneous interpretation into a different language. Each transmitter will be tuned into a different channel. You can select the desired channel in your existing FM receivers; there will be one channel to listen directly to the tour guide and another channel to listen to the interpreter.
Not really, professional FM systems like the Enersound TSP use special frequencies set aside by the FCC for this particular functionality, these are the frequencies in the range of 72 to 76MHz, so any other FM or radio signal present in the same location would not affect or interfere with tour guide system’s signal.