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What are Audissey Guides?

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:11:56 +0000

Smart. Fun. Free.

Audissey Guides are the evolution of paper travel books; a new breed of self-guided tours – for iPods and Smart Phones.

Just download, walk and listen.

Boston: Downtown

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:59:14 +0000

Boston isn’t all tri-corner hats and tea parties.
This award-winning audio tour of Boston leads you down secret alleys and hidden paths — to the heart of the real Beantown. Authentic interviews with local Bostonians, original music and sound effects.

You’ll visit the former headquarters of the Boston Mafia, meet a Boston Mayor elected from a jail cell, and sip a cappucino with locals in the North End.
To get off the beaten path in Boston just download the audio tour to your iPod and listen as you walk.

Directions

1. View & print the map. (Click here)
2. Choose your download (see options below).
3. Walk to stop 1 on the map and press play.

Download Options:

Subscribe | Need help?
The easiest way to get the tour onto your mp3 player is to subscribe using iTunes or your favorite podcasting tool:

Click to Subscribe

Streaming | Need help?
Select this option if you would like to stream it to your smart phone or watch the tour from your computer.

Click to View

Download| Need help?
Select this option if you would like to download the tour as a .zip file. You will need to unzip the folder to view it or drag it to a playlist once you have downloaded it.

Click to Download

Not sure which option is best for you? Click here for help.

The Tour Map

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The Voice Behind the Tour

4 local Bostonians guide you through their home town – showing you a side of Boston most tourists never get to see. Some of the narrators include:

Michael Patrick MacDonald is the author of All Souls: a Family Story from Southie, winner of the American Book Award.

Luigi ‘Big Lou’ DeMarco is seriously Italian. His family owns Caffe Graffiti, a local hangout in the North End.

Dicky Barrett is lead singer of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

Tour Details

Tour Length: 1 hour
Tour Distance: 1 mile
Recommended Times: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm

Washington DC: Downtown

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:56:18 +0000

Get off the National Mall and explore the streets and alleys of Downtown Washington. This audio walking tour will take you into the heart of DC’s history. Narrated by National Public Radio’s Korva Coleman, this one-hour journey guides you along the Center Loop of the Downtown Heritage Trail.

This tour takes you off the beaten path of touristy DC. You’ll visit:

Ford’s Theatre
The Verizon Center
The Old Center Market

Stand in the very alley where Abraham Lincoln’s murderer escaped. And walk along Pennsylvania Avenue – and hear the ghosts of soldiers, protesters, and presidents echoing around you.

Directions

1. View & print the map. (Click here)
2. Choose your download (see options below).
3. Walk to stop 1 on the map and press play.

Download Options:

Subscribe | Need help?
The easiest way to get the tour onto your mp3 player is to subscribe using iTunes or your favorite podcasting tool:

Click to Subscribe

Streaming | Need help?
Select this option if you would like to stream it to your smart phone or watch the tour from your computer.

Click to View

Download| Need help?
Select this option if you would like to download the tour as a .zip file. You will need to unzip the folder to view it or drag it to a playlist once you have downloaded it.

Click to Download

Not sure which option is best for you? Click here for help.

The Tour Map

Click to View & Print

The Voice Behind the Tour

Your host narrator on this tour is Korva Coleman of National Public Radio. An award-winning journalist and contributor to nationally syndicated programs like All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Talk of the Nation. Korva’s voice will guide you through the historic streets of Washington DC.

Shel’ll also introduce you to an eclectic cast of Washingtonians, from street vendors, to pro athletes, to social activists, who all call DC home.

Tour Details

Tour Length: 1 hour
Tour Distance: 1 mile
Recommended Times: 9:00 am – 8:00 pm

Miami Beach

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:52:42 +0000

Walk through a world of mojitos, bikinis and reggaeton.

This edgy audio walking tour will give you an insiders view of Miami Beach – “the capital of sexy”. Bikini model and Miami Beach local Claudia Verela guides you to her personal favorite sights, including the Versace mansion, hot clubs, and swanky hotels. Complete with a soundtrack that captures the sounds of Miami. It’s a journey you won’t forget.

Directions

1. View & print the map. (Click here)
2. Choose your download (see options below).
3. Walk to stop 1 on the map and press play.

Download Options:

Subscribe | Need help?
The easiest way to get the tour onto your mp3 player is to subscribe using iTunes or your favorite podcasting tool:

Click to Subscribe

Streaming | Need help?
Select this option if you would like to stream it to your smart phone or watch the tour from your computer.

Click to View

Download| Need help?
Select this option if you would like to download the tour as a .zip file. You will need to unzip the folder to view it or drag it to a playlist once you have downloaded it.

Click to Download

Not sure which option is best for you? Click here for help.

The Tour Map

Click to View & Print

The Voice Behind the Tour

Claudia Verela
Say hola to Claudia Verela – your tour guide on this audio walking tour through Miami Beach.

Claudia is a bikini model by day – and a bartender in Miami Beach by night. Miami Beach is her backyard… and her playground. Follow her voice as she leads you through her hometown, and gives you the uncensored scoop on the place.

She’s a member of the US National Bikini Team, and she lists champagne and tequila among her weaknesses. When you do the Miami Beach Audissey, you’ll get to know even more about this fixture on the Miami Beach social scene.

Tour Details

Tour Length: 1 hour
Tour Distance: 1 mile
Recommended times: 10:00 am – 9:00 pm

Chicago

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:51:50 +0000

Towering skyscrapers and lowball politics. Yes, this is Chicago.

On this edgy audio walking tour, you’ll step inside the legendary Andy’s Jazz Club. Sip a beer at the infamous Billy Goat Tavern. And you’ll retrace the last footsteps of Chicago gangster Tony Lombardo. You’ll even take a ride on the El — and listen to a hip-hop ode to the famous train.

Directions

1. View & print the map. (Click here)
2. Choose your download (see options below).
3. Walk to stop 1 on the map and press play.

Download Options:

Subscribe | Need help?
The easiest way to get the tour onto your mp3 player is to subscribe using iTunes or your favorite podcasting tool:

Click to Subscribe

Streaming | Need help?
Select this option if you would like to stream it to your smart phone or watch the tour from your computer.

Click to View

Download| Need help?
Select this option if you would like to download the tour as a .zip file. You will need to unzip the folder to view it or drag it to a playlist once you have downloaded it.

Click to Download

Not sure which option is best for you? Click here for help.

The Tour Map

Click to View & Print

The Voice Behind the Tour

Kevin Coval, a renowned Chi-town hip-hop poet is your personal tour guide. Let him lead through his streets and give you his unvarnished perspective on life in the City of Big Shoulders.

Coval is a regular on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. He’s performed his poetry in Europe, South Africa, and India. He’s the author of the new book Slingshots: a Hip-Hop Poetica.

Tour Details

Tour Length: 1 hour
Tour Distance: 1 mile
Recommended Times: 10:00 am – 7:00 pm

New Orleans

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:47:21 +0000

For 60 minutes, you will become a New Orleans local.

See the City of Ghosts through the eyes of Brent Baudean, and experience the most soulful city in America. You will walk into a local’s favorite corner store. You’ll learn where you can order an absinthe (yep, they will serve it). And you’ll even meet a voodoo priestess.

The tour features an original soundtrack — an avant-garde mix of jazz, electronica, Dixieland, and goth. A blend almost as wild the city herself.

Directions

1. View & print the map. (Click here)
2. Choose your download (see options below).
3. Walk to stop 1 on the map and press play.

Download Options:

Subscribe | Need help?
The easiest way to get the tour onto your mp3 player is to subscribe using iTunes or your favorite podcasting tool:

Click to Subscribe

Streaming | Need help?
Select this option if you would like to stream it to your smart phone or watch the tour from your computer.

Click to View

Download| Need help?
Select this option if you would like to download the tour as a .zip file. You will need to unzip the folder to view it or drag it to a playlist once you have downloaded it.

Click to Download

Not sure which option is best for you? Click here for help.

The Tour Map

Click to View & Print

The Voice Behind the Tour

Brent Baudean is 100% Cajun Creole. He’s lived in southeast Louisiana all his life. And he’s a self-professed “Quarter Rat” — a name for the hipsters that live, work, and play in the French Quarter.
Brent’s a tour guide, a musician, a pool shark, and a drinker. In other words, he’s a New Orleanian.

Tour Details

Tour Length: 1 hour
Tour Distance: 1 mile
Recommended Times: 11:00am-9:00pm

Seattle

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:45:58 +0000

Yes, there’s more to Seattle than coffee and grunge.

On this edgy audio walking tour, you’ll hear a Duwamish tribal leader recite a drum-fueled ode to Chief Seattle. Visit an anarchist bookstore. And get an insider’s look at a famous peep show… but we don’t want to ruin the surprise…

Directions

1. View & print the map. (Click here)
2. Choose your download (see options below).
3. Walk to stop 1 on the map and press play.

The Tour Map

Click to View & Print

The Voice Behind the Tour

She’s on intimate terms with this town. Her voice is well-known on the Seattle music scene. She hosts “Nite Life”, a late-night music celebration…a party… on KEXP, the indie station in town.

“Michele’s Bacall-meets-Marilyn purr does for late-night Seattle what honey butter does for fresh-from-the-oven cornbread. Examine a spectrogram of her voice and I’m confident you’d find the word ’sex’ airbrushed into the waveforms.” – The Stranger

Tour Details

Tour Length: 1 hour
Tour Distance: 1 mile
Recommended Times: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm

Houston: Downtown

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:40:02 +0000

If you think you know Houston, you might want to think again. Download this 90-minute audio tour and let Dan Workman show you his Houston.

You’ve never had a tour guide like this before. Dan’s the owner of Sugarhill Studios – the oldest recording studio in the country. He’s worked with more stars than a Texas night sky: from ZZ Top to the Rolling Stones.

Dan will take you places you never knew existed: historic sites. Cool local bars. He’ll show you the city he fell in love with.

It’s all set to an original soundtrack – inspired by the city of Houston. So download the tour, turn the volume up, and get walking.

Directions

1. View & print the map. (Click here)
2. Choose your download (see options below).
3. Walk to stop 1 on the map and press play.

Download Options:

Subscribe | Need help?
The easiest way to get the tour onto your mp3 player is to subscribe using iTunes or your favorite podcasting tool:

Click to Subscribe

Streaming | Need help?
Select this option if you would like to stream it to your smart phone or watch the tour from your computer.

Click to View

Download| Need help?
Select this option if you would like to download the tour as a .zip file. You will need to unzip the folder to view it or drag it to a playlist once you have downloaded it.

Click to Download

Not sure which option is best for you? Click here for help.

The Tour Map

Click to View & Print

The Voice Behind the Tour

Dan Workman is the man. He’s the owner of Sugarhill Studios, the oldest recording studio in the country. He’s an artist. A musician. A storyteller. A businessman. A renaissance man.

He’s Houston-born, Houston-bred. He left for Houston a little while when he was younger – he was in college and needed to experiment. But he missed the lemonade and skateboarding the empty streets at midnight. He came back, and has never left again.

And now – lucky you – he’s your tour guide.

Tour Details

Tour Length: 1 hour
Tour Distance: 1 mile
Recommended Times: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm

Houston: Museum District

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:25:19 +0000

Walk this way. This progressive audio experience will guide you through the cultural treasure trove known as the Museum District.
This 90-minute tour is practical and informative, taking you by the hand to specific museum locations and collections. But the tour itself is also a work of art itself: it is at once experimental, emotional, meditative, and purely beautiful: strolls through sculpture gardens and parks are often free of any narration, instead showering the listener with original sound compositions that enhance the physical surroundings.

There’s a surprise around every corner:

A Holocaust survivor shares her escape from Nazi-occupied Poland, in front of the Houston Holocaust Museum

A paleontologist discusses dinosaur poop at the Houston Museum of Natural Science

Echoes of Mohatma Ghandi’s speeches pulse in your ears as you stroll through a rose garden

The tour even incorporates a ride on the Houston Light Rail into the experience

Directions

1. View & print the map. (Click here)
2. Choose your download (see options below).
3. Walk to stop 1 on the map and press play.

Download Options:

Subscribe | Need help?
The easiest way to get the tour onto your mp3 player is to subscribe using iTunes or your favorite podcasting tool:

Click to Subscribe

Streaming | Need help?
Select this option if you would like to stream it to your smart phone or watch the tour from your computer.

Click to View

Download| Need help?
Select this option if you would like to download the tour as a .zip file. You will need to unzip the folder to view it or drag it to a playlist once you have downloaded it.

Click to Download

Not sure which option is best for you? Click here for help.

The Tour Map

Click to View & Print

The Voice Behind the Tour

Houstonians have been getting their news from Shara Fryer for a couple decades. She’s an award-winning television reporter and knows how to get the inside story.

She’s interviewed everyone from President Richard Nixon to Audrey Hepburn. From Lt. Col. Oliver North to the Dalai Lama.

And now she’s broadcasting for an audience of one.

You.

Tour Details

Tour Length: 1 hour
Tour Distance: 1 mile
Recommended Times: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm

Houston: Discovery Green

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:19:25 +0000

Discovery Green is, in a word, awesome. This brand new park is an oasis in the middle of Downtown Houston. Discovery Green is an amazing story of green building in downtown Houston. It has achieved LEED Gold Certification, making it the first completed LEED Gold project for new construction in downtown Houston.

This audio walking tour gives you the inside scoop on the park – and guides you to all the hotspots – and shady spots.

So get to Downtown Houston – or just listen at home. See what everyone is talking about – and why Houstonians are rediscovering their Downtown.

Directions

1. View & print the map. (Click here)
2. Choose your download (see options below).
3. Walk to stop 1 on the map and press play.

Download Options:

Subscribe | Need help?
The easiest way to get the tour onto your mp3 player is to subscribe using iTunes or your favorite podcasting tool:

Click to Subscribe

Streaming | Need help?
Select this option if you would like to stream it to your smart phone or watch the tour from your computer.

Click to View

Download| Need help?
Select this option if you would like to download the tour as a .zip file. You will need to unzip the folder to view it or drag it to a playlist once you have downloaded it.

Click to Download

Not sure which option is best for you? Click here for help.

The Tour Map

Click to View & Print

The Voice Behind the Tour

Guy Hagstette is your tour guide. He’s been obsessed with making this park a reality for all Houstonians. You couldn’t ask for a better host. Guy is a native Houstonian. And proud of it. He’s the President of the Discovery Green Conservancy. And proud of that, too.

Guy was a key player in the redevelopment of Downtown Houston. He lives in Downtown Houston – just a stone’s throw from his beloved Discovery Green.

He can’t wait to tell you all the cool things about the park. Seriously. He’s excited.

Tour Details

Tour Length: 1 hour
Tour Distance: 1 mile
Recommended Times: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm