Donate your voice and help us develop Danish speech technology

Donate your voice and help us develop Danish speech technology 

– and receive a gift voucher of 400 DKK

Do you ever struggle to make Siri, DuoLingo or any other app using speech recognition understand you when you speak Danish – despite having practiced quite a lot?  

In a new project, Københavns Hovedbibliotek and the Alexandra Institute are looking for research participants and people who have learnt Danish later in their life and feel comfortable having their speech and voices recorded for the purpose of strengthening the Danish language digitally. You will read out loud in a private setting, and you will be anonymous in the dataset. 

Your recording will become part of a Danish Speech Dataset that contains recordings of more than 1,000 people’s dialects and accents from all over Denmark. This gives you a unique chance to contribute to the development of Danish speech technology to make computers and artificial intelligence better at understanding Danish speech and respond sensibly in a Danish context, no matter the accent and pronunciation. The dataset will be freely available to everyone, so that developers, companies and public institutions can benefit from it and adjust their current language models.

Ready to help out? Please read on 

We need people who are willing to and comfortable with spending 2 hours reading Danish sentences out loud in a private room and make voice recordings, which will both be directed by staff on site. The recordings take place at Københavns Hovedbibliotek, Krystalgade 15, 1172 København, on 24th of March 2025 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

If you want to participate or know someone who might be interested, please sign up via this form 

 Once we get closer to the date in question, you will be contacted to arrange a specific time and recording session.