Clemens-Krauss Strasse, SALZBURG, Sept. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LiveVoice, a cloud-based audio streaming platform headquartered in Salzburg, Austria, is seeing growing adoption among tour operators, museums, and heritage sites across more than 100 countries. Visitors follow guided tours in their own language on their own smartphones, removing the need for operators to rent, hand out, clean, and charge audio guide devices.
A tour guide manages live audio streaming and translation channels using the LiveVoice app on a smartphone.
LiveVoice is a general-purpose live audio platform used for conferences, corporate meetings, worship services, and events of every size. Guided tours have become one of its most active use cases, with the platform supporting live translation across more than 70 languages. Compared with traditional rented audio hardware, LiveVoice reduces typical costs by up to 80 percent.
How the LiveVoice Guided Tour Platform Works
A tour operator creates an event in the LiveVoice dashboard and defines a channel for each language on offer. Visitors scan a QR code on a ticket, sign, or printed card, select their language, and listen through their own earbuds. The guide speaks into a phone or headset microphone, and the audio reaches every visitor in real time.
The platform's AI voice translation can carry the tour into additional languages without a second guide. Event setup is done in a few minutes.
Why LiveVoice Is Becoming a Top Choice for Hardware-Free Live Translation on Tours
The platform addresses several operational constraints that have shaped the guided tour industry for decades.
- No device inventory. Visitors use their own smartphones rather than rented receivers, eliminating daily handout, collection, cleaning, charging, and replacement of lost units.
- Language coverage without extra guides. A single guide can reach visitors in multiple languages at once, rather than running separate tours per language group.
- Flexible group sizes. Because the platform is cloud-based, a tour of six and a tour of six hundred use the same setup, with no equipment ceiling.
- Predictable, pay-per-event pricing. Costs scale with visitor numbers rather than hardware inventory, with no long-term contracts or equipment purchases required.
Platform Capabilities for Tours and Cultural Venues
The LiveVoice hardware-free live translation platform includes the following capabilities:
- Live translation across more than 70 languages
- Human interpreters working remotely or on-site
- AI voice translation and AI-generated live captions
- Audio description channels for visually impaired visitors
- Low bandwidth requirements, working over WiFi or mobile data
- Support for unlimited language channels running in parallel
- Browser access on computers and a dedicated mobile app
Accessibility at Cultural Sites
Alongside translation, the platform's live captions and audio description channels allow museums and heritage sites to serve visitors who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, or have low vision. Both run on the same account as the language channels, without additional equipment.
A Word from LiveVoice Founder Johannes Wigand
"Audio guide hardware has always come with a hidden operational cost, and it is not just the rental," said Johannes Wigand, founder of LiveVoice. "Someone has to hand the devices out, collect them, clean them, charge them, and replace the ones that walk off. Visitors already carry a better device in their pocket, and we are glad to see so many operators and venues making that switch."
A tour participant tunes in to live audio commentary and translated audio channels on a smartphone via LiveVoice.
About Live Voice
LiveVoice is an app for live translation, guided tours, silent conferencing, and audio description. Attendees use their own smartphones, eliminating the need for expensive hardware, making it easy and flexible to implement at events of any size. AI translation, remote interpreting, live subtitling, and more—all based on the BYOD principle—enable a new level of inclusion and accessibility.
Press Inquiries
Johannes Wigand
hello [at] livevoice.io
https://livevoice.io/en
