Since the arrival of the smartphone 20 years ago, STQRY has made possible the telling of stories in self-guided audio tours where history happened.

Artificial intelligence now enables us to sharply increase the efficiency of tour production and give voice to noteworthy historic characters. Especially for creatives who enjoy history and love to write, this makes spatial storytelling an especially rewarding and promising career field.

Over six Wednesday evenings on Zoom starting September 30, The Power of Spatial Storytelling will lead participants through through the process of producing a compelling audio tour— creating a knowledge refinery in NotebookLM, writing narratives in ChatGPT, voicing narratives in ElevenLabs, and triggering narratives on smartphones with STQRY.

Having completed Voices of Lake Luzerne, we’re putting our AI tools to work in telling stories of those who made history on the shores of Lake George during the French & Indian War and Revolutionary War. We’ll describe with the Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance the collaboration that’s producing this.

We’ll also demonstrate an audio companion we’re producing for A Gangster’s Paradise, Greg Veitch’s chronicle of gambling, bootlegging, and corruption in Saratoga Springs. That’s a story we’re telling in Peter Finley’s fight for the rule of law.