Leonora Vesterbacka

Leonora Vesterbacka is a senior data scientist at the Kungliga biblioteket (Royal Library) in Sweden. She has played a crucial role in the development of KB-Whisper, an advanced AI model for transcribing Swedish speech to text. Vesterbacka's work focuses on enhancing the accuracy of speech recognition in Swedish, addressing common transcription errors, and improving the model's performance with diverse dialects. Her efforts contribute significantly to the accessibility of Swedish language media and support various applications, including broadcasting and customer service.