Wiki Talking Tours

Exit trip with a smartphone of the hand is always have help. And it is that it not only offers direct communication channels to ask for help, but also allows you to know the location, search for establishments and consult any question on the Internet But, if it is capable of doing all that, why not turn it into a complete audioguide to enjoy the information about a place while walking around it? The developer of Wiki Talking Tours has thought about itA nice tool for tourists who don't want to ask every step they take, or have to stop to read pamphlets and travel guides.

The application Wiki Talking Tours proposes to the user to transform his mobile Windows Phone in an audio guide That is, a device that reads information of interest about places aloud. A point in favor is that this information comes directly from the famous web page Wikipedia, thus collecting all kinds of texts and articles about emblematic buildings, historical places, relevant facts and other issues. All this while walking down the street contemplating those places.

The operation of Wiki Talking Tours is simple and is based mainly on Wikipedia Thus, it is able to recognize the user's location thanks to the terminal's GPS sensor and display it on a map with articles related to surrounding places. And it is that many of the contents of the Wikipedia are geotagged That is, anchored to the place with which they are related. In this way, this application relates the situation of the user and the articles of interest. All on the same screen.

With this, all you have to do is start the application and see on the screen the portion of the map of the area in which you are. Using small bubbles the Wikipedia articles related to the environment are anchored, being able to click on any of them to read a summary Thus it is more comfortable to find the information that the user wants and know if it is of interest. However, what is really convenient is to click on the option Play so that a voice begins to read the entire article aloud In this way, the user only has to place the mobile phone in a nearby pocket to listen to the narration and be able to attend the place without losing any information about what happened, the history of the building or any other detail made article.

The good thing about the application Wiki Talking Tours is that it is configurable, being able to choose the language and the proximity to which you want to receive suggestions of articles from the Wikipedia Along with this, it also allows the full reading of these textscomfortably on the mobile screen, in case you don't want to bother with the audio.

In short, a tool for tourists who want to know all kinds of details of the places they visit, being able to enjoy it as if it were an audioguideOf course, you have to pay attention to the battery and amount of Internet rate data that this tool can consume. The good thing is that Wiki Talking Tours is completely free It can be downloaded viaWindows Phone Store