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%T A Shoal of Voices: Parallel Read Speech from Professional Swedish Narrators
%A Tånnander, Christina
%A O’Regan, Jim
%A Edlund, Jens
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Bel, Núria
%Y van den Heuvel, Henk
%Y Ide, Nancy
%Y Krek, Simon
%Y Toral, Antonio
%S Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resource Association
%C Palma de Mallorca, Spain
%F tannander-etal-2026-shoal
%X We present a shoal of voices in Storspigg–TBI, a legally cleared, professionally recorded Swedish speech corpus derived from talking-book production at the Swedish Agency for Accessible Media (MTM). The corpus contains 1 000 information messages read by 99 narrators under controlled studio conditions. The material has undergone full legal assessment and a three-sweep adoption process ensuring provenance, FAIR/FACT compliance, and reproducibility in collaboration with the national research infrastructure Språkbanken Tal. The paper describes the legal framework, data-selection and curation pipeline, as well as initial automatic transcription using Swedish Whisper and wav2vec 2.0 models. The resulting corpus provides a high-quality reference resource for speech science and technology, supporting research on inter-speaker variation, prosody, and evaluation under consistent acoustic and linguistic conditions.
%R 10.63317/3vwydgxw2bvt
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.666/
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Markdown (Informal)

[A Shoal of Voices: Parallel Read Speech from Professional Swedish Narrators](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.666/) (Tånnander et al., LREC 2026)

• A Shoal of Voices: Parallel Read Speech from Professional Swedish Narrators (Tånnander et al., LREC 2026)

ACL

• Christina Tånnander, Jim O’Regan, and Jens Edlund. 2026. A Shoal of Voices: Parallel Read Speech from Professional Swedish Narrators. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 8446–8454, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.