Scan To Listen lets your patrons hear any TV or audio source in your venue through headphones they already own. No app to download, no account to create — scan the QR code and press play.
Where It Works
Sports bars, gyms, churches, and more! Scan To Listen works at a wide variety of venues. TVs with an optical audio output are supported as standard. Microphones, mixing desks and interpreter feeds can be added as custom work, quoted separately. Every source becomes its own stream, and guests pick from the list.
Sports Bars
Every guest follows their own game, at their own volume, through their own headphones.
Gyms & Fitness
Cardio TVs through the member’s own earbuds. No overhead volume, no cable at the machine, nothing to sanitise between users.
Churches
Sanctuary, overflow room, nursery and lobby all carrying the same service — with English and Spanish running as separate channels for bilingual congregations.
Airport Bars & Lounges
Travellers keep one eye on the departure board and one ear on the game.
Coffee Shops
Keep the room quiet and still give people something to listen to. The music or the match stays optional, per guest.
Waiting Rooms
A television nobody can hear helps nobody. Patients and families listen privately while the room itself stays calm.
Hotel Lobbies
Give guests the lobby screen without making the lobby loud. Late arrivals and early departures both get what they want.
Cinemas & Screening Rooms
Pre-show content, second screens, and private audio for guests who want the volume higher than the room does.
Club Lounges & Hospitality Rooms
Lounge screens are unwatchable when you cannot hear them. Put the broadcast commentary straight into the phone already in their hand.
Conferences & Events
Several sessions running at once, each its own channel. Attendees pick the room they want to hear — no receivers to hand out or chase down at the end.
Multilingual Audiences
Conferences, tours, civic meetings — give each interpreter their own channel and let guests choose a language from the same list. We carry the interpreter’s live feed; we do not translate.
For Venues
Wherever there are screens and an audience, Scan To Listen fits naturally into the experience.
Interactive Demo
Scan the QR code with your phone or tap the button below to experience exactly what a patron sees when they connect to a venue audio stream — fake sports bar, fake TVs, real interaction.
Try the DemoOn a phone? Just tap the button above.
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How It Works
We guide the setup and support it afterwards — day to day, there is very little for your staff to do.
Enterprise-grade hardware is connected to each audio source and configured for your venue. Your team installs; we guide setup remotely or on-site and verify every audio source. Setup is simple: confirm your guest Wi-Fi meets our network requirements, mount the units in a server room or behind the TVs, and run cables to each audio source. For most venues, this should only take a few hours.
Guests join your Wi-Fi and scan the QR code at their table or screen. No account, no app store — the live audio opens right in their mobile browser.
Patrons plug in their own headphones and hear your audio in real time. You focus on hospitality; we support the system remotely and keep it updated.
Features
Everything you need to deliver a seamless listening experience — and keep patrons engaged beyond the audio.
Audio reaches the patron’s phone in a fraction of a second, mitigating the potential for perceptible lip-sync delay.
The stream is taken from the audio output, not the speakers — so your screens can be muted, loud, or anywhere in between, and every listener still hears clearly at whatever volume suits them. Many venues run their screens muted; you do not have to.
Audio plays directly in the mobile browser. Patrons never visit an app store. There is nothing to install.
Each QR code links directly to a live audio stream. Scan, press play. Guests can switch audio channels from a drop-down list without rescanning the QR code.
One device carries several audio sources at the same time, each a fully independent stream. Four TVs on four games, a main room and an overflow room, English and Spanish side by side — patrons pick from a list and switch whenever they like.
Surface your food and drink menus, event flyers you upload, and image promotions directly inside the listening experience without interrupting the audio.
Image promotions you upload pop up on the listening page on a timer you set. Text messages let staff send a short note to everyone listening — happy-hour alerts, game-day specials, last call. Both are shown on the listening page while the audio keeps playing.
Your staff sign in to a secure admin portal to manage menus and promotions and see active listener counts. It is available on the venue’s network, or remotely through a per-person email sign-in that we set up for your managers. Scan To Listen manages the unit’s audio and network settings remotely, so most issues need no site visit. Aggregate listening statistics (Insights) show how your streams are used.
Audio goes straight from our device to each guest’s phone over your venue’s own network. It isn’t relayed through the cloud, and the device refuses to send it to phones that aren’t on your network. Guests simply join your guest Wi-Fi before they scan. Network requirements →
Scan To Listen supports common mobile browsers such as Chrome and Safari on iPhone and Android, but a listener's experience may vary with their device and browser, the venue's local network, and the venue's audio source.
We’re developing support for Auracast, a Bluetooth LE Audio broadcast standard. The goal is for audio to stream directly from our device to compatible headphones, bypassing your network and phone browser entirely. It is not available yet, and details may change before it ships.
Our Service
We don't drop off a box and leave. Every Scan To Listen deployment is a complete, ongoing managed service.
Setup is designed to be done with remote guidance: we walk you through it, verify every audio source end to end, and confirm the patron experience before you go live. Your team does the physical installation and any network changes. On-site setup help is available and quoted separately, in the Nashville, TN area and elsewhere.
Have an issue? Email us. We make reasonable efforts to respond promptly and can often diagnose problems remotely without a site visit.
We keep your system current. Security patches, performance improvements, and new features are applied remotely, and we aim to schedule updates outside your busy hours.
Need something specific to your venue? Additional functionality is available on a case-by-case basis. Get in touch to discuss what your operation requires.
Scan To Listen is a local audio distribution system. It is not a certified assistive listening system, does not supply receivers, neckloops or telecoil-compatible hardware, and does not by itself satisfy any accessibility requirement. Hearing aids that use only a telecoil cannot use it.
Launch pricing starts at $15 per TV per month. Contact us for a quote based on your venue. No commitment, no pressure.
Or email us directly at scantolisten@gmail.com
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