NO HEADSETS TO MANAGE
No distribution, no deposits, no collection at the exit, no charging or cleaning between groups. Visitors use their own phone and their own earphones.
Tours & guided visits
GUIDED TOUR
TRANSLATION
Museum tours, site visits and city walks, followed live on each visitor's own phone. No shared headsets to distribute, collect or clean.
Book a demoMIXED GROUPS ARE THE NORM, NOT THE EXCEPTION
A guided visit is rarely monolingual. A museum group, a factory tour or a heritage site walk gathers whoever booked that time slot, and they do not share a language. The usual answers are to split the group by language, which multiplies guides and time slots, or to run the tour in one language and let the rest follow the pointing.
Audio guide hardware solves part of it and creates its own problems: devices to hand out, deposits to take, batteries to charge, units to sanitise, and a pre-recorded commentary that cannot answer a question or react to what is actually in front of the group.
Glot keeps the live guide and drops the hardware. Visitors follow on the phone they already carry, in their own language, including the improvised parts of the tour that pre-recorded guides can never cover.
BUILT FOR MOVING GROUPS
THE GUIDE STAYS LIVE
Questions, detours and improvisation are translated too, which is exactly what a pre-recorded audio guide cannot do.
ONE GROUP, MANY LANGUAGES
A mixed group stays together instead of being split by language into separate tours and separate time slots.
HOW GUIDED TOUR TRANSLATION WORKS
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The guide wears a microphone
A simple wireless microphone paired to a phone is enough, and it moves with the guide through rooms, corridors and outdoor sections.
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Visitors scan at the start
A QR code at the meeting point. Visitors pick their language and put in their own earphones, with nothing to install.
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Walk and talk
The guide leads the tour normally. Visitors follow live in any of 60+ languages and can ask questions, which are translated for the group.
AUDIO GUIDES, SPLIT GROUPS OR LIVE TRANSLATION
Sites generally pick one of three models for multilingual visits. They differ less in cost than in what the visitor actually gets.
| Approach | Strength | Limitation |
|---|---|---|
| Split the group by language | Native guide for each | Multiplies guides and time slots; small language groups get no slot at all |
| Audio guide hardware | Consistent commentary | Devices to hand out, deposits, charging, cleaning, and a fixed recording that answers nothing |
| One language, visitors follow along | Simple | Most of the group watches the pointing and reads the labels |
| Printed translations | Cheap | Static, and it competes with the guide for the visitor's attention |
| Glot | Live guide, every visitor's language, own phone | Requires mobile coverage and a microphone on the guide |
A MIXED GROUP ON AN ELEVEN O'CLOCK SLOT
A heritage site runs hourly guided visits. The eleven o'clock slot typically holds thirty visitors: about half domestic, the rest Spanish, German, Japanese and a couple of Gulf families.
The site owns eighty audio guide receivers. Two are missing by the end of the week, a handful are flat by mid-afternoon, and the recorded commentary cannot answer the question a visitor asks in the third room. Splitting the slot by language would mean five guides for thirty people.
With a microphone on the guide, the group stays together. Each visitor follows in their own language on their own phone, including the improvised part of the visit, which is usually the part they remember. The site stops managing an inventory of hardware.
PRACTICAL POINTS FOR GUIDED TOUR TRANSLATION
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A wireless microphone on the guide
Guides walk, turn and talk over ambient noise. A worn microphone is what keeps the commentary usable through corridors and outdoor sections.
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Check coverage room by room
Cellars, thick-walled rooms and underground sections are where mobile coverage fails. Walk the route and test before committing to it.
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A QR code at the meeting point
On the ticket, the signage or the guide's badge holder. Visitors join in the two minutes before the tour starts.
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Tell visitors to bring earphones
A line on the booking confirmation is enough. Visitors who arrive prepared have a noticeably better visit than those who read captions only.
COMMON QUESTIONS
No. They listen on their own earphones or read captions on their own phone, which removes distribution, deposits, cleaning and charging entirely.
Yes, provided there is mobile coverage for the visitors' phones. A microphone on the guide handles the movement between rooms or outdoor sections.
Yes. Questions picked up by the microphone are translated, so the interactive part of the tour is included rather than lost.
It serves a different need. An audio guide is a fixed recording; Glot translates a live human guide, including answers, detours and anything specific to that day's group.
Group size is not limited by a stock of receivers, since each visitor uses their own phone. Tell us your typical group sizes and we will confirm the right setup.
That is the main constraint to check. Underground or thick-walled sections may need site Wi-Fi coverage, so walk the route and test before the first commercial tour.
For live guided visits, yes, which removes distribution, deposits, charging and cleaning. Sites that also offer unguided self-paced visits usually keep a recorded option for those.
Yes, provided mobile coverage is reliable along the route. A worn microphone handles the movement and the ambient noise of a street or a site.
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ONE GUIDE.
EVERY LANGUAGE.
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