Use geolocated sound, voice, text, and images to craft engaging experiences for your audience. Outdoors, SonicMaps uses location services (e.g. GPS) to automatically deliver audio-visual content in response to user movement, much like a personal tour guide. At home, visitors can still explore your project through our virtual listener mode, available on the SonicMaps Player app or embedded directly on your site.
At the heart of the SonicMaps platform is our easy-to-use online Editor, offering a multi-layer approach to storytelling and audio tour creation. By overlapping multiple layers of content—such as voiceover, ambient sounds, and music—visitors can seamlessly transition between sound materials, creating their own unique mixes as they move through your map. This approach enables memorable, hands-free experiences delivered simply through a smartphone and headphones, with no need for QR codes or manual intervention. (less)
Whether you’re a tour guide, museum, artist, or educator, SonicMaps helps you organize media and control playback based on location and time, creating dynamic, personalized journeys.
Schedule content zones to create dynamic audio experiences that change throughout the day. Imagine having night and daytime variations of your sounds! You can also enable event-specific content that is accessible only on certain dates.
The ducking effect works by automatically lowering the volume of one audio source (e.g. background music) when another audio source is present (e.g. voice-over). Use it to ensure that your spoken content can be heard clearly over background music, sound effects, or other audio elements.
The SonicMaps Editor implements a speech synthesis service with 14 natural sounding voices in multiple languages to quickly generate high quality audio content for your audio tours.
* English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
We use Vimeo's fantastic API to support video content in SonicMaps so you can combine audio and video zones in the same project. Creating a video zone is as simple as adding your Vimeo video ID.
Featured projects by SonicMaps artists and creators:
When GPS tracking is not required, embedding an interactive sound map in your own blog or website is an excellent way to exhibit your project in context. Try the example below, a beautiful soundscape composition by Pete Stollery and Suk-Jun Kim:
* Embedding codes for your locative audio projects can be obtained from the SonicMaps Editor.