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Alan Friedman, the Director of the NY Hall of Science, did two  
evaluation studies of audio tours, funded by NSF.  I'm sure he will  
be glad to forward you the results of that research.  Please contact  
me off-list for his email address.

Nobody uses CD's for audio tours anymore, it is *so* 1990's. ;^)  
There are a lot of options to choose from in the solid state audio  
tour market, from "soup to nuts" providers like Antenna and  
Acoustiguide, to equipment sellers like JVC and several others.  In  
the case of the former, you contract with them to produce the audio  
tour and sell or lease you the equipment.  In the case of the latter,  
you produce and structure the audio tour yourself, and the vendor  
provides software and hardware that enables you to structure the  
audio tour as you wish.  I have some information on the various  
options if you are interested.  Again, please contact me off list as  
I am reluctant to get into my opinions about various vendors, pro or  
con, on a public listserv.


Eric Siegel
Executive VP
    Programs and Planning
NY Hall of Science
47-01 111th Street
Queens, NY 11368
www.nyscience.org

On Jun 3, 2005, at 12:18 PM, Lou Papai wrote:

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> Greetings all,
>     Science Central is researching the possibility of doing an audio
> tour of the power plant components in our building with used to be  
> the power
> plant for our city.
>     Has anyone had success or failure with these tours?
>     Also, I'd like to do digital via a mp3 player.  CD players can  
> be so
> bulky.  Anybody have problems with those?
>
> Any help you can give would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Lou Papai
> Public Programs Manager
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