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Step-by-step guides to creating, recording, printing and publishing audio guides with Muvo.
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Getting started
4 articlesCreate your space and have your first audio guide playing on a phone.
- Create your spaceSign up without a password, create your museum, school or venue in Muvo and finish the guided first steps with a Zero plan and no card.
- Your first audio guide in 10 minutesCreate an artwork, write it in paragraphs, give it an AI voice, publish it and hear it on your phone by scanning its QR code.
- Sign in to MuvoGet into your panel with an email link, Google, Microsoft or LinkedIn, switch between your spaces and sign out on one device or all of them.
- Add your logo, colour and space detailsGive the audio guide your identity: upload your logos, pick your colour and typeface, add a cover and fill in the details visitors see in the player.
Content and editor
7 articlesArtworks, paragraphs, custom fields, extras, tours and versions.
- Create an artworkAdd a stop to your audio guide with its name, audio guide number, main image and fields, and see where each one shows in the visitor's player.
- Write the text of an artwork in paragraphsWrite, split, merge and reorder the paragraphs of an artwork, stay within the character limit and know what happens to the audio when you edit.
- Publish an artwork and manage its versionsLearn what visitors hear while you edit, what an artwork needs before publishing, how translations go out and how to go back to an earlier version.
- Add extras below the playerAdd an image gallery, a video, a PDF, a link, a formatted text or related artworks below the player, order them and translate their texts.
- Set up the fields of your artworksCreate the details every artwork has, such as artist, year or technique, choose which are featured or required, and see where visitors read them.
- Create a tour with stops in a suggested orderBuild a tour from your published artworks, order its stops, add a welcome text and a duration, and give visitors one QR code to follow it.
- Delete an artwork and recover it from the trashMove artworks to the trash, recover them within 30 days and learn what happens to their QR code, audio and statistics when they are deleted for good.
Audio and voice
6 articlesGenerate the AI voice, record your own and get every paragraph sounding right.
- Generate the AI voice of your textsVoice your paragraphs with the AI voice, check the cost before confirming, regenerate what changed and listen to the whole artwork.
- Record your own voiceRecord the narration paragraph by paragraph in the browser, choose and edit your takes, and mix recordings with the AI voice at no credit cost.
- Choose the voice of each languagePick the native AI voice each language of your space is read with, listen to the samples first and decide what to do with audio made with the old voice.
- Add intonation to the AI voiceMark words the AI voice should read whispering, with excitement or as a quotation, without the marks ever showing in the visitor's text.
- Add background music to your audio guideChoose a music track for your space, set its volume under the voice and hear it the way visitors will before they do.
- Fix audio that is out of dateUnderstand why a paragraph's audio goes out of date, regenerate only what changed and know what visitors hear in the meantime.
Languages and translation
4 articlesAdd languages, translate with AI and keep translations up to date.
- Which languages does Muvo cover?Understand the three kinds of language in Muvo: the dashboard you work in, the visitor player interface and the languages your guides are voiced in.
- Add or remove languages in your spaceAdd the languages your audio guides are offered in, pick the main one, and deactivate or remove the ones you no longer need.
- Translate an artwork with AITranslate the paragraphs of your artworks with AI, choose a faithful or adapted translation, see the cost first and review it before publishing.
- Review and correct a translationCheck each translated paragraph next to its original, fix it by hand, handle out-of-date paragraphs and mark the language ready to publish.
QR codes and printing
5 articlesDownload, style and print the QR codes of your artworks, tours and space.
- Design and print QR signs in the sign studioDesign wall labels, labels and posters with your QR codes in several languages and print them as a PDF on A4, A3 or at the print shop.
- Send your QR codes to your designer or print shopPrepare a tidy, fully explained ZIP of your QR codes for a design team, print shop or laser workshop, and send it by email from Muvo in one click.
- Give your QR codes your own styleChange the colours and shapes of your QR codes and put your logo in the centre, check they still scan, and try it for free before unlocking it.
- Download your QR codesDownload one QR code as SVG, PNG or PDF, and choose how to print many: ready-made signs, or the files for your designer or print shop.
- Regenerate or swap a QR codeGive a QR code a new address when the printed one must stop working, swap two codes printed the wrong way round, and know what visitors see.
Visitors and access
5 articlesHow visitors listen, open and closed mode, and access codes.
- How visitors listen to your audio guideSee what visitors do with their phone: scan a QR code, type a number or find you nearby, and use the player's controls, synced text and reading settings.
- Which language visitors hearLearn how the player picks the language of each audio guide from the visitor's phone, when it falls back to your main language and how to change it.
- Close your audio guide with access codesSwitch to closed mode so each visitor needs a 6-digit code, get or buy codes for your plan and print them as A4 sheets or thermal tickets.
- Manage your access codesGet or buy batches of access codes, download only the unused ones, follow the state of each code, cancel a code and know when they expire.
- Understand your statisticsRead your visitors, listens, minutes and completion, see which artworks, tours, extras and languages work, and export it all to CSV.
Plans, credits and billing
5 articlesPlans, credits, invoices and tax details.
- How credits workLearn what credits pay for, what is free, how Muvo charges only for work that succeeds and where to check your balance and every movement.
- Choose a plan for your spaceCompare Zero, Premium and Ultra, upgrade or switch plans from the panel and know exactly what happens when you go back to Zero.
- Buy a credit packBuy more credits for AI voice and AI translation by card, see when they reach your balance and know in which order Muvo spends them.
- Download invoices and update your tax detailsFind and download the VAT invoice of every payment, keep your organisation's tax details up to date and change the card in the Stripe portal.
- Change or cancel your planSwitch between Premium and Ultra or monthly and yearly billing, cancel back to Zero and know when each change applies and what you keep.
Team and account
3 articlesInvite your team, manage roles and look after your account.
- Invite your team and choose their rolesInvite colleagues by email as administrators or editors, follow pending invitations, change roles and pause or remove access.
- Manage your profile and notificationsChange your name, picture and panel language, read the notices in the bell and choose which of them you also get by email.
- Check the activity log and close a spaceSee who changed what and when in your space, filter the log by person or type, and understand what happens when you close the space.