Lift & Listen
Lift & Listen Audio Telephone
Pick up the handset to hear a recorded message. This audio telephone interactive uses a familiar action to introduce spoken interpretation without requiring visitors to find a separate play button.
Lifting the handset automatically triggers the digitally stored audio. The message is held on an SD card and played through the telephone, creating a direct link between the object and the recorded content.
The installation places a period-style telephone within a printed heritage panel. The same lift-and-listen format provides a practical starting point for oral histories, character voices or other recorded interpretation, with the chosen content defining the story.
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The handset creates a clear and familiar invitation to listen. Rather than presenting audio as a separate device, the telephone becomes part of the story’s setting, with playback triggered by the action visitors already associate with it. This format can give recorded interpretation a more personal quality, allowing the selected voice or message to carry the subject while the surrounding panel provides context.
The audio telephone mounted within its heritage interpretation panel. The lift-and-listen museum exhibit combines a period-style telephone with printed interpretation, giving recorded audio a clear place within the heritage story.
Close-up of the period-style handset and telephone body. Picking up the handset triggers the stored recording, making a familiar physical action the starting point for personal audio interpretation.
The telephone installation alongside the Bude Light interpretation. The telephone sits within the wider heritage display, where surrounding graphics provide context for the spoken message and connect it with the Bude Light story.
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