Museums & Visitor Centers

Summary

Bettear describes live Auracast tours and exhibit playback using its RTX receivers, including stored audio synchronized by timecode.

Key findings

Describes live guide voice broadcasting and self-guided exhibit playback.
Distinguishes live Auracast audio, unsynchronized on-demand files on RTX, and files on RTX synchronized to a timecode stream.
For the timecode mode, says audio files reside on each RTX and the CASTER transmits timing information; this differs from broadcasting the audio itself.
Describes selection from a track list or NFC exhibit tags, and a dispatch panel assigning devices to tours and groups. Its Tour Builder lists proximity triggers as a future feature.

Limits

Product marketing without independent museum field results, visitor sample or comparative intelligibility measurements. The described stored-file and timecode functions depend on the manufacturer ecosystem and do not establish those functions on visitors’ own hearing devices. Undated, read in October 2026.

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bettear.com/solutions/museums-and-visitor-centers

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Cited in

What works for guided tours, museums and visitor attractions?Partly answered

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Bettear. Museums & Visitor Centers. n.d. https://bettear.com/solutions/museums-and-visitor-centers (accessed 13 October 2026).

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