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Swedish AI startup Klang raises €1.32 million, releases open Swedish speech model
Original: Helsingborg’s conversation AI startup Klang raises €1.32 million and releases open speech-to-text model for Swedish
Klang, a conversation AI startup based in Helsingborg, Sweden, has raised €1.32 million in funding and released an open speech-to-text model for the Swedish language. The move gives developers and researchers free access to Swedish transcription technology, a resource that has lagged behind English-language tools, and provides the company with capital to continue building its conversational AI products.
Why now: Startup funding news combined with the release of a rare open-source AI model for a smaller language like Swedish is drawing attention in the Nordic tech community.
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- Helsingborg’s conversation AI startup Klang raises €1.32 million and releases open speech-to-text model for Swedish · EU-Startups
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