Sonoreum

A place for sound.

Sonoreum makes AI audio guides for museums. It's built and run by Yassine Gayl in San Francisco.

Most museums do without an audio guide.

A traditional guide takes scripts, translators, a recording studio and a cupboard of handsets. It costs so much that most museums never get one, and the few that do get one route, in one or two languages, frozen until the next budget.

I think that's fixable. AI changes the cost of writing, translating and voicing, so a guide can fit whatever a museum is showing: the permanent collection, a temporary show, a single room. It doesn't change who decides what's said in the museum's name. In Sonoreum, every stop is drafted from the museum's own texts and approved by its team before a visitor hears it.

One person builds it and works with every museum.

Yassine Gayl

Yassine Gayl

Founder

I'm the one who builds the software, sets up each museum's first tour, and answers the email. The first museum guide went live at MACAAL, in Marrakech, our first partner.

How it goes

  1. A demo with your own works

    Name a few, from the collection or a show. You get one stop, written and voiced, within days, so your team can hear it before deciding anything. No call needed first.

  2. A call

    Your collection, your visitors, what the guide should do, and the price: from $199 a month, depending on your languages and setup.

  3. Your texts, the first tour

    You send what you already have. I build the first tour with you in Studio: the stops, their order, the voices, the languages.

  4. Your review

    Your team reads and listens to every stop and changes what it wants. Nothing is published without its approval.

  5. Launch, and after

    You put the QR sign at reception. From then on, an edit in Studio reaches visitors right away, you get a short report each month, and when something changes, a rehang or a new show, you send the texts.

Sonoreum in a few lines.

Name
Sonoreum, from the Latin sonor, sound, and -eum, the ending of museum, odeum and athenaeum.
What it is
An AI audio guide platform for museums and cultural venues: Studio, where a museum's team turns its texts into a voiced, approved guide, and the guide visitors open by QR code in their browser.
Used for
The permanent collection, temporary shows, a single room or a trail. One Studio, any setup.
Founded
2026, in San Francisco.
Founder
Yassine Gayl, who builds the software and works with every museum directly.
Company
Sonoreum is Yassine Gayl's trade name.
Languages
Up to ten, among them English, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic, each with its own voice.
For visitors
The phone's browser, from a QR code. No app, no account, no handset.
Pricing
From $199 a month, $0 upfront. We set up your first tour with you.
Contact
hello@sonoreum.com

Questions

Who is behind Sonoreum?
One person: Yassine Gayl, in San Francisco. I build it, and I'm who you deal with, from the first email to the launch.
What happens to our guide if you're unavailable?
It keeps running. It lives on hosted servers that don't need me day to day. And your texts, scripts and audio are yours: ask, and you get a copy.
Do you work with museums outside the United States?
Yes. The first one is. I work with each museum remotely, by email and video call, and the guide runs in up to ten languages.