Meridian Linguistics was asked to collect 75 five-minute recordings from equal parts men, women, and children – native Swedish speakers only. With a very tight deadline (less than a week!)
While Meridian doesn’t have any managers based in Sweden, we are lucky to have strong international networks of willing translation vendors. With their help, we collected all 75 voices (plus backups) to specification and had them edited and formatted by the client’s deadline. Lucky for us, Swedes live all over the world: these recordings were sent in from Sweden, South Korea, Thailand, the US, Spain, and Germany, and our managers worked across three timezones to recruit, collect, assess, and deliver these recordings on a rolling basis.
These recordings will be used by the client to develop voice-recognition software so that their toy can recognize the commands of Swedish children.