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Musa powers guided experiences in 40+ languages across three continents, from art museums to archaeological sites.
What happens to your PDF
From a 60-page catalogue PDF to a guide visitors can listen to and question. Here is exactly who does what.
Send us your PDFs, catalogues, and label copy
Share the documents you already have. We handle the ingestion, so there is nothing to install and no IT needed on your side.
We ingest your catalogue to become the guide's knowledge base
Musa reads your PDFs and turns them into narration for every stop. When visitors ask questions, the guide answers from your material only.
Review and edit every stop in Studio
You check the wording, correct anything, and approve each stop. Nothing goes live before you have signed it off.
Print the QR codes and open the doors
Visitors scan a QR code and listen in 40+ languages on their own phones. No app, no hardware, no queue at a desk.
Your guide stays under your control
Nothing publishes without your review
Every stop drafted from your PDF waits for your approval in Studio before a single visitor hears it.
Answers come from your material only
The guide narrates and answers from the catalogues and label copy you provided, not from the open internet.
Your documents stay yours
You can export your full content, transcripts, and analytics at any time, and everything stays ready in your account.
From catalogue page to audio stop
What the transformation actually looks like: a section of your PDF becomes an editable stop, a short narration, and material the guide can answer questions from. Not a document read aloud — a tour built from your document.
A catalogue section about one object: description, dates, provenance, maybe a curator's note. It was written to be read, not heard — too long and too dense for a visitor standing in a gallery.
Musa extracts what carries the story into a draft stop, with narration written for listening. Your team edits the wording, sets the tone and approves it before anything goes live.
The rest of the section is not lost: it stays in the knowledge base. When a visitor asks about the provenance detail the narration skipped, the guide answers from that passage.
More than a document read aloud
Text-to-speech tools turn a PDF into one long audio file. Musa turns it into a museum tour.
| PDF-to-speech file | Musa audio guide | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | One linear audio file of the whole document | A tour of editable stops, arranged along your route |
| Editing | Change the PDF, regenerate the whole file | Edit any stop in Studio and publish in minutes |
| Languages | One file per language, produced separately | 40+ languages published from one source |
| Visitor questions | Playback only | Visitors ask questions, answered from your material |
| Delivery | A file you still have to distribute | QR code, browser, analytics and payments built in |
Curation without the hassle
1. Upload
Share your existing material, from catalogues to floorplans. Automatically turned into a knowledge graph.
2. Design
Focus on the story instead of the script. Choose stops, tone, languages and guardrails.
3. Feedback
See what resonates and what's missing. Update in minutes, not months.
1. Upload
Share your existing material, from catalogues to floorplans. Automatically turned into a knowledge graph.
2. Design
Focus on the story instead of the script. Choose stops, tone, languages and guardrails.
3. Feedback
See what resonates and what's missing. Update in minutes, not months.
Authentic
Create voices with natural dialects, accents, and emotions. Generated doesn't mean generic.
Audio guides, how they should have been
There is a big difference between a guide and a recording. Your visitors will notice. See all features.
Ask anything, get answers you can trust
Never wonder where to go next
Thousands of conversations. Visitor insights you can act on.
Pricing that starts at zero
No setup fees, onboarding included. Choose revenue share with no upfront costs, a subscription from £500 a month, or prepaid credits from £1,000.
Questions about turning PDFs into an audio guide
PDFs, catalogues, wall and label texts, transcripts, and image, audio or video material — plus your floorplan. If you are unsure about a format, send it along and we will look at it together during onboarding.
Images and their captions are part of the material we ingest into the knowledge base, and stops can carry the media that belongs to them. Automatic visual descriptions and transcripts keep the experience inclusive.
Yes — that is what Studio is for. Your team reviews and edits every stop, and nothing is published before you have signed it off.
Yes. You can attach your own audio tracks to stops; the imported documents still power the knowledge base behind visitor questions.
They stay yours. The guide narrates and answers from the material you provide — if a question goes beyond it, that supplemental context is clearly labelled. You can export your full content, transcripts and analytics at any time.
Ingesting your documents is part of complimentary onboarding. Running the guide uses the normal models: revenue share with no upfront costs, a subscription from £500 per month, or prepaid credits from £1,000.