Audio Tours
An audio tour is a story that takes you places– literally. Welcome guests to your cultural institution with a fun, engaging voice. This can be the difference between someone racing through an exhibit or being captivated and transported to a different time and place. A lot of work goes into crafting and curating the perfect tour, and you want a voice that is warm, eloquent and charming to deliver the message. Whether your tour is for a museum, a monument, botanical garden or historical space, it is vital that the auditory experience is a compliment to the surroundings.. The right kind of voiceover professional, with experience in narration, does just that
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What People Say
I worked with Debbie on a freelance gig providing character voices for an Audio Tour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Debbie’s reading was so good, I stayed after my session was done just to listen. I’ve been in the business for decades and it is rare to hear someone who can deliver exactly what a part calls for so quickly and so well. (The producers were equally impressed.)
Debbie has had the pleasure of voicing tours for the following:
- Metropolitan Museum of Art:
The American West in Bronze - The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Permanent Collection Family Tour - The Guggenheim:
Architecture Tour - The Smithsonian Institution:
The Working White House: 200 Years of Traditions and Memories - National Gallery of Art:
Children’s Tour, West Building Highlights - The New York Botanical Garden:
Tram Tour - The New York Botanical Garden:
Darwin’s Gardens: An Evolutionary Adventure
- The New York Statue of Liberty:
Harbor Tour - The National Library of Medicine:
Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body - The Yale Peabody Natural History Museum:
Permanent Collection Tour
- Detroit Institute of Arts:
American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell - The Kimbell Art Museum:
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy - The Moody Mansion:
Galveston, Texas Historic Tour - The McNay Art Museum
- The Disney Family Museum
Gallery Tour
A gallery audio tour can feel daunting to a guest, especially if the space is as expansive as the Metropolitan Museum of Art or The Smithsonian. There are endless corners of paintings, sculptures and installations to see, and so much backstory and history to relay back to your guests in order to enhance their overall experience. A guided audio tour, with a cordial, animated female voice can make the guest feel as if they are being told a story. They won’t feel as if they are missing out on vital information about the work they are viewing. Your guests will get the opportunity to learn both audibly and visually, and feel as if a guide is physically there with them, showing them everything they need to see.
Debbie has voiced tours like the American West in Bronze that highlighted the history of the American west in bronze statues. Debbie narrated stories about pioneer women, cavalry troops on horseback and the rounding of cattle, bringing the listener closer to the trials and excitement of life in the wild west.
Museum Tour
Similar to a gallery tour, a museum audio tour needs to guide a guest through countless rooms filled with incredible artifacts and masterpieces. The history and cultural significance of these works of art are as important as the works themselves. The historical information can be overwhelming. An informative and enthusiastic voice can make the historical context seem accessible. An audio tour in a museum should feel like a conversation with a friend; engaging, exciting and fresh. We want to be told a story. The ability to make facts seem like a story only comes from years of expertise and knowledge behind the technique of narration which Debbie Irwin has in spades.
Family Tours
Family audio tours are unique in that they bring the world of art to life. For a family audio tour Debbie voiced each of the characters in paintings such as Jan Havicksz Steen’s Merry Company on a Terrace. This genre of audio tours animate the paintings in a way that brings the historical information to life.
Guests are transported into the world of the painting, with the voices of both the characters of the paintings, and the sounds of their environment. The artwork feels more accessible and engaging to young guests because they feel immersed in the world of the art.
Monument Tour
A guest coming to experience and learn about an important monument such as The Statue of Liberty, walking from its base to its crown, will learn about its history, significance, and construction. Debbie is proud to say that she was the voice of the Statue of Liberty for many years. She is a voice actor who can bring the stature, elegance and gravitas of an icon like the Statue of Liberty to life.
Historical Tour
An audio tour with a mature and expressive voice can bring the past into the present. Enthusiasm, paired with delicate articulation, brings historical events to life. Audio tours like The Working White House: 200 Years of Traditions and Memories introduce us to the staff who have kept it functioning on a daily basis. Debbie narrated this tour and intimately portrayed over 200 years of the people who were dedicated to serving the inhabitants of White House.
Public Space Tour
A guided audio tour benefits a public space, like the New York Botanical Garden, because it enhances and focuses the visitor’s attention on the grounds and its surroundings. Debbie brought listeners into the world of Charles Darwin and explained his theories of evolution in Darwin’s Garden: an Evolutionary Adventure. Debbie also voiced the New York Botanical Garden Tram Tour that guided guests through the rare and unusual garden conifers in America.