One guide.
Every language.
Auris turns the phones your visitors already carry into personal audio guides. They scan a QR code, pick their language, put in their earbuds — and hear you live, translated. No receivers to rent, no app account to create.
- No sign-up for visitors
- Works with any earbuds
- Zero hardware to carry
Radio guides belong to another century
Every guided tour hits the same wall: half the group cannot hear you, and a third does not speak your language. The usual answer is a suitcase full of receivers.
- €2 to €5 per person per day, before deposit
- A case to carry, charge, hand out, collect and clean
- One channel, one language — everyone hears the same thing
- Flat batteries, lost receivers, missing earpieces
- Nothing for deaf or hard-of-hearing visitors
- Free up to 20 people, then €19.99 a month — unlimited tours
- Everyone already has a phone and earbuds in their pocket
- Each visitor picks their own language, in the same room
- Nothing to distribute, nothing to collect, nothing to lose
- Live captions on screen — accessible by design
Three steps, thirty seconds
No installation for the group, no setup for you. If you can start a tour, you can start an Auris room.
The guide opens a room
Pick your spoken language, set a price (or keep it free), and Auris generates a QR code plus a short room code. Print it, put it on a sign, or just show your screen.
Visitors scan and walk in
The camera opens the room instantly — in the app, or straight in the browser for anyone who would rather not install anything. No email, no password, no account.
You speak, they understand
Your voice is transcribed, translated and read aloud in each visitor's language, roughly two seconds behind you — with the text on screen for anyone who prefers to read.
Guide on one side. Visitor on the other.
The same app, two very different jobs. Guides get a console. Visitors get something they can use with one thumb, half-listening, while walking.
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A room in one tap
QR code, short code and shareable link, generated instantly. The code rotates every few minutes so it cannot be reused by a group that walks by.
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You set the price
Free, fixed price, or pay-what-you-want at the end. Visitors pay in two taps with Apple Pay or Google Pay, and the money lands in your account.
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Live console
See how many people are listening, which languages they chose, and whether your microphone is actually being picked up — before you have talked to a wall for ten minutes.
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Your own glossary
Load the names you actually say — monuments, artists, local dishes, your company's product names — and they stop being mangled. Upload your script and Auris pre-translates it, which makes the tour cheaper and sharper.
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Takings and history
Every tour, every language, every payment, exportable for your accountant. Recurring rooms for a schedule you repeat every week.
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Scan, and you are in
No account, no email, no password. The room opens, you choose your language, and that is the whole onboarding.
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Audio, text, or both
Listen with your earbuds, or just read the live captions — useful in a noisy street, in a quiet church, or if you left your headphones at the hotel.
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Catch up on what you missed
Stopped to take a photo? Scroll back through the transcript. Keep the whole tour in your pocket afterwards, translated, as a souvenir.
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Gentle on your battery
Text-only mode barely touches your battery, the screen can stay off while you listen, and a dead zone with no signal does not end the tour.
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Tip at the end
One tap to thank a guide who was worth it. On free tours, it is often the guide's real income — and it is optional, always.
« Cette basilique a été construite après 1875… »
This basilica was built after 1875, on the highest hill in Paris.
« Regardez la pierre : elle blanchit toute seule. »
Look at the stone — it whitens by itself when it rains.
Café des Deux Moulins — 80 m away · −10% for Auris visitors
Your voice, understood in the language they think in
Auris listens, writes down what you said, translates it with the context of your tour, and speaks it back in each visitor's language. A short delay — about two seconds — which is roughly the pause you take at the end of a sentence anyway.
Twelve languages available live at launch, covering around 80% of international visitors. Others can be enabled on request for Enterprise accounts.
It knows your vocabulary
Proper nouns are where machine translation usually falls apart. Your glossary — place names, artists, technical terms — is fed into the translation, so "Sagrada Família" stays "Sagrada Família".
It survives the catacombs
Cellars, castles, mountains and metros eat mobile signal. When the network drops, Auris keeps going on a direct phone-to-phone link and on-device translation, then resyncs when you come back up.
It hears you in a crowd
Noise filtering and voice detection keep the street out of the transcript. Pair any €20 Bluetooth lapel microphone and you sound like a broadcast, even at the foot of a cathedral in August.
Anywhere one person talks and a group listens
Auris was built for walking tours. It turns out the same problem exists in a factory, a boardroom and a lecture hall.
Heritage & city tours
Mixed-nationality groups on a walking tour, where half the value of the visit is in what you say between the monuments.
Museums & galleries
Replace a fleet of ageing audio guides with something visitors already know how to use — and add live captions in the process.
Factory & site visits
Loud floors, safety helmets and international delegations. Everyone hears the briefing, in their language, without shouting.
Corporate & onboarding
Site inductions, investor visits, internal training. One speaker, a room full of languages, no interpreter booth.
Schools & universities
Field trips, exchange programmes and lectures where not everyone is fluent yet — and captions help more students than you would guess.
Events & pilgrimages
Conferences, trade shows, religious sites: large groups, many nationalities, and nowhere to plug in a translation booth.
Live captions are not a bonus feature
Around one adult in five has some hearing loss. On a windy street, in a resonant nave, behind a mask, a normal guided tour simply does not reach them. Auris writes down everything you say, in real time, on a screen they are already holding.
Real-time captions in every language
Including the guide's own — a deaf visitor on a French tour reads French, without needing a translation at all.
Adjustable text, high contrast, screen readers
Type size, contrast and playback speed are visitor settings, not afterthoughts.
A concrete answer for public tenders
Museums and heritage sites in Europe are under growing accessibility obligations. "Live multilingual captions on the visitor's own phone" is a line that wins those files.
…and if you look up at the dome, you can still see the scaffolding marks from the restoration.
We will stop here for five minutes. The stairs on your left lead to the viewpoint.
Free to start. Paid when you are making money.
Visitors never pay Auris a subscription. Guides only pay once their groups get big enough that it pays for itself.
- Unlimited rooms and tours
- All 12 live languages
- Live captions and audio
- Tips enabled — you keep 100%
- Discreet ads shown to visitors
- 24-hour transcript history
- Large groups — up to 500 per room
- No ads, ever, for your visitors
- Custom glossary and pre-translated scripts
- Multiple guides under one account
- Your logo and colours in the visitor app
- Attendance stats, exports and invoicing
- Fixed price, free, or pay-what-you-want
- Apple Pay, Google Pay, card — two taps
- Paying visitors never see ads
- Automatic payout to your bank account
- Automatic refund if you cancel a tour
- Receipts and statements for your books
The questions guides actually ask
Do my visitors have to install the app?
No. Scanning the QR code opens the room straight in their browser — it works on any recent phone, iPhone or Android. The app is a nicer experience for regulars (offline mode, background audio, saved transcripts), but it is never a condition for joining your tour.
How accurate is the translation, really?
Good enough that people follow your story, not good enough for a legal deposition. Ordinary narration translates very well. Puns, thick regional accents and invented words do not. Loading your glossary before the tour makes the difference between "acceptable" and "excellent", especially on names.
What happens when there is no network?
Auris falls back to a direct phone-to-phone link between you and the visitors around you, with translation running on the devices themselves. Quality drops a little, the tour does not stop. Everything resyncs when you come back into coverage.
Can someone else scan my QR code and listen for free?
The code rotates automatically, you can require a short spoken passphrase, and a paid room only lets in as many people as have paid. You also see the live headcount, so an unexpected extra listener is not invisible.
How and when do I get paid?
Visitors pay in the app when they join. The money is transferred to your bank account automatically after the tour ends, minus the commission and the card fees. If you cancel, everyone is refunded in one tap.
Is my group's audio recorded?
The audio is processed as it goes and is not stored. What is kept, if you want it, is the text of your own tour — which belongs to you and which you can delete. Visitors join anonymously: no name, no email, no account.
Will it drain my visitors' batteries?
Text-only mode is very light and the screen can stay off during audio playback. A 90-minute tour typically costs a visitor well under a fifth of their battery — less than streaming music for the same time.
I run a museum with 40,000 visitors a year. Can we use this?
Yes — that is what the Enterprise plan is for: several guides on one account, your own branding in the visitor app, recurring rooms, attendance statistics and an invoice rather than a card payment. Talk to us and we will set it up with you.
Your next tour could be understood by everyone in it
Create a room, print the QR code, and see what happens when the whole group finally follows the same story.