Afrigather American political satire present “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” has partnered with Cape City-based startup VoiceMap to launch an interactive self-guided strolling tour taking company on a journey via the occasions of the January 6, 2021 insurrection in Washington D.C.
The strolling tour, titled “In the Footsteps of the Freedomsurrection”, will enable listeners to hint the precise route taken by protesting Trump supporters. It’ll revisit the occasions earlier than, throughout and after the storming of the US Capitol constructing.
A number of the highlights of the strolling tour embrace “The Battle of Little Muffin Prime”, through which President Trump single-handedly fought in opposition to his personal secret service element, and the Ellipse/Save America Rally, a spot on the Nationwide Mall the place Trump organised his followers on the morning of January 6 and urged them to “stroll down Pennsylvania Avenue.”
Based in 2014, VoiceMap is a publishing platform and cellular app for location-aware audio excursions that makes use of GPS to play audio mechanically.
In response to co-founder Iain Manley, the audio excursions are advised via locals’ voices to assist familiarise vacationers with their location and to create a way of being subsequent to the storyteller.
“I wished to create a platform that anyone may use to inform location-aware tales in their very own voice – to match the immediacy of GPS with the intimacy of an actual particular person’s tales and an actual particular person’s voice,” Manley mentioned in an interview with Bizcommunity.
Anybody can submit audio excursions on VoiceMap. The storyteller then units the value of their tour and earns royalties on each obtain. Rankings and feedback assist folks select which excursions to obtain.
