This database was created by Nordic Language Technology for the development of automatic speech recognition and dictation in Norwegian. In this version, the organization of the data have been altered to improve the usefulness of the database.
The acoustic databases described below were developed by the firm Nordisk språkteknologi holding AS (NST_hesitate), which went bankrupt in 2003. In 2006, a consortium consisting of the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the Norwegian Language Council and IBM bought the bankruptcy estate of NST_hesitate, in order to ensure that the language resources developed by NST_hesitate were preserved. In 2009, the Norwegian Ministry of Culture charged the National Library of Norway with the task of creating a Norwegian language bank, which they initiated in 2010. The resources from NST_hesitate were transferred to the National Library in May 2011, and are now made available in Språkbanken, for the time being without any further modification. Språkbanken is open for feedback from users about how the resources can be improved, and we are also interested in improved versions of the databases that users wish to share with other users. Please send response and feedback to
sprakbanken@nb.no.
