Self-guided audio walking tours in Los Angeles
Venice, Echo Park, Highland Park, the Strip. Every one of them was sold as a dream and then had to live with it.
Firsthand has 6 walks in Los Angeles, running from 37 to 53 minutes. Each is one story, told from the ground. You set the pace, and it arrives as you reach the place it happened.
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How it works
- 1Go to where the walk begins. It is a real route through a real neighbourhood.
- 2It follows you. Each part plays when you reach the place it is about. There is no timer.
- 3The phone stays in your pocket. Directions come through the audio.
The standard
We go looking for the story a place is actually about and walk you to where it happened. Every claim is checked against the record, then checked again by someone trying to prove it wrong. The narrators are synthetic voices, cast and directed for each walk. The judgment behind every word is ours.
Questions
- How many audio walks are there in Los Angeles?
- 6, running from 37 to 53 minutes. Each is a real route through one neighbourhood, and the story plays as you reach the place it is about.
- Do I need a connection during a walk?
- No. The walk is on the phone before you start. It uses your location for one thing, to know which corner you have reached.
- Is the narrator a real person?
- The narrators are synthetic voices, cast and directed for each walk. The research, the writing and the judgment about what belongs in a walk are done by people.
- Is the history checked?
- Yes. Every claim is checked against the record before a walk ships, then attacked by a second pass whose job is to prove it wrong. Where the record runs out, the narration says so.