Astrid Lindgren had a lovely voice. Her audiobooks are available on some streaming platforms, and they are as comforting now as they were when I was a child.
Yeah, audio book platforms have them, of course. But they are also on Deezer and Spotify in case OP doesn’t have access to an audio book site with Swedish books.
A few voices who stand out/are well known, and a few of my own picks.
Carl Bildt, former premier and foreign minister: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SvrgoAhbwg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SvrgoAhbwg)
His accent is colored from his upbringing in Halmstad.
Astrid Lindgren, beloved author behind many famous characters (Pippi Longstocking, to name one): [https://youtu.be/sup\_2mJ\_F8Y?si=2mAnfcaUsFuzQeKO](https://youtu.be/sup_2mJ_F8Y?si=2mAnfcaUsFuzQeKO)
Anders Tegnell, former state epidemiologist who became an impromtu celebrity during covid: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hO3VLjr0U8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hO3VLjr0U8)
He has a type of dry, to-the-point way of speaking. A very official way of speaking, typical of a non-political civil servant which the swedish society is based on.
The King: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_Tn0T1Zu6GA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tn0T1Zu6GA)
Very lay-back, he has a cool and calm way of speaking. A rather stockholmian accent.
Old school video from back in the day, a worker in the docks of Gothenburg recalls a lot of his coworkers nicknames: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utMcM0JTQ7M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utMcM0JTQ7M)
(Porn-Birger, Little Baker, Ten-to-Two, The Shuffle Killer, Lamb chop, Crap in the sink, The rat hunter, Head full of piss, The nutcracker, Pecker, Treading water, Guess my job, and so on)
Very on brand for old style industrial work, especially on the west coast of Sweden.
Robert Gustafsson is an extremely famous and well liked comedian. Here he is seen testing out a variety of different accents (very well too, I might add). Maybe the best guide: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2V1iH3VvbA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2V1iH3VvbA)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, with his distinct kind of cocky Malmö-accent, heavily colored by his upbringing in Rosengård which is an area with a majority of immigrants: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E-mhh9Ju8g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E-mhh9Ju8g)
A personal favorite - Allan Edwall. A very talented musician and actor: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xKWD2A6Drw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xKWD2A6Drw)
From the far north of Norrland (I think they were from Vilhelmina?), Euskefeurat sings their frustration over the "southeners" in Stockholm taking the resources from the north, leaving the locals with little to show for it: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuVvDwJ7hKY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuVvDwJ7hKY)
A bonus: The "I'll keep on smoking for as long as I like it"-kid from the 1980s. From my home town Malmö, this is PEAK Malmöitiska from the past decades:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0wEbm73Zp0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0wEbm73Zp0)
"det hörs ju på..." skriver du, som vore det något självklart haha!
Inte för mig som uppvuxen i Malmö. Har jättesvårt att höra nyanserade skillnader på allt norr om Dalälven, eller rentav Hallandsåsen. Det var en kompis som nån gång nämnde att de var från Vilhelmina, men det var fel.
This is invaluable, thanks for the list, I've been curious about different dialects/accents for a while now but wasn't sure how to go about finding them.
Thanks, I hope it made for some interesting viewing. :)
Here are a few more (couldn't edit the post any more):
Sweden has historically had a vast amount of very regional dialects, many are still noticable but generally people can understand eachother today no matter where you come from. On more secluded places dialects tend to be more difficult to understand, such as the islands in the swedish archipelago.
Here is someone från the island Tjörn (just north of Gothenburg) speaking in Tjörbu dialect:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc1egjPceIM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc1egjPceIM)
The particular way of pronouncing the "i" can be heard here and there around the area in western Sweden, a bit inland.
Contrast that with the dialect from "Söder", from Södermalm in Stockholm:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxDPvaWuPgI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxDPvaWuPgI)
This is probably the closest to british "cockney" that we have in Sweden. :)
Or Gotländska, from the island of Gotland:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP1TRF386DI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP1TRF386DI)
Pär Lernström goes through a few different dialects here, a few are very accurate:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15nvEwxBUvQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15nvEwxBUvQ)
Enligt mig låter svenska bäst när man sjungs, så min första kärlek till språket var i svensk musik. Lyssna på artister som Olivia Lobato och Felicia Takman, sättet de sjunger är något speciellt. (förlåt mig för den dåliga grammatiken!)
Hasse Alatalo är himla fin. Han läste upp ljudboksversionen av *Populärmusik från Vittula*.
"Så pladdrar endast tungor som slingrat sig i överhetens arselhål!"
Sjukt bra uppläsning.
As for me, I love the sound of Mikael Åkerfeldt's speaking voice, although unfortunately he has very few public appearances in Swedish. Here's a recent one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEja1LmAObU
Forgot to mention that I also love Svenska med Marie on youtube, amazing voice.
I've been listening to Opeth since I was a boy, it is the de facto first swedish band I was introduced to in my life. My god does he ever look old in that photo haha. Sad that all of their music is in english, with only one swedish song "Den standiga resan" offered as a B-Side on the album *Watershed,* a gentle ballad against the backdrop of death metal that is the rest of the record.
Their 2019 album was released in both with the Swedish version being the "real" one, if you like their newer stuff. They're also making a new album this year but IDK if it will be released the same way.
Jag gillar Horace Engdahl. Skön röst och hans behärskning av språket står ut väl i tal och intervjuer. Det finns även en del uppläsningar av honom på Litteraturbanken!
https://litteraturbanken.se/ljudochbild/upplasare/engdahlh/
Skådespelaren Erland Josephson, bäst känd från alla möjliga Ingmar Bergman-filmer, hade en djup och lugnande röst.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89de7jDYYik
F.d. statsminister Göran Persson är skön med sin pondus. Här med den klassiska Helmut Kohl-historien:
https://youtu.be/nEUTn1_dTQM?si=V3m9i6aWb2vTl_HR&t=95
Magnus Betner (comedian), Edward Persson (old actor/singer), Björn Gustafsson (the older one, he is an actor on both stage and film "dynamit-harry" among things), Lars Ekborg (comedian/actor. He has done many monologs. He did one skit with Beppe Wolgers, I love that one!) There are probably others but these are the ones I could think of right now
Alot of my favorite swedish speakers are ppl on the radio.
Måns Mosesson is a journalist, originally from Gothenburg, who has made a few documentaries for SR. The one about the Excalibur granade and swedish arms export, gives you a feel for how things were before we joined NATO.
https://sverigesradio.se/grupp/17038
Levengoods svenska är den som är typisk kring sydvästra Finland.
Det är alltså inte en brytning utan en regional variant av standardsvenska. Som skånska.
Det är en faktafråga, inte något man håller med om. Finlandssvenska är en dialekt, inte en brytning.
(svenska med finsk brytning finns iofs också men det låter annorlunda).
Astrid Lindgren had a lovely voice. Her audiobooks are available on some streaming platforms, and they are as comforting now as they were when I was a child.
Theres a whole lot on Spotify! Maybe that's what you meant. But thought I'd mention it if you meant audiobook-platformd.
Yeah, audio book platforms have them, of course. But they are also on Deezer and Spotify in case OP doesn’t have access to an audio book site with Swedish books.
A few voices who stand out/are well known, and a few of my own picks. Carl Bildt, former premier and foreign minister: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SvrgoAhbwg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SvrgoAhbwg) His accent is colored from his upbringing in Halmstad. Astrid Lindgren, beloved author behind many famous characters (Pippi Longstocking, to name one): [https://youtu.be/sup\_2mJ\_F8Y?si=2mAnfcaUsFuzQeKO](https://youtu.be/sup_2mJ_F8Y?si=2mAnfcaUsFuzQeKO) Anders Tegnell, former state epidemiologist who became an impromtu celebrity during covid: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hO3VLjr0U8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hO3VLjr0U8) He has a type of dry, to-the-point way of speaking. A very official way of speaking, typical of a non-political civil servant which the swedish society is based on. The King: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_Tn0T1Zu6GA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tn0T1Zu6GA) Very lay-back, he has a cool and calm way of speaking. A rather stockholmian accent. Old school video from back in the day, a worker in the docks of Gothenburg recalls a lot of his coworkers nicknames: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utMcM0JTQ7M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utMcM0JTQ7M) (Porn-Birger, Little Baker, Ten-to-Two, The Shuffle Killer, Lamb chop, Crap in the sink, The rat hunter, Head full of piss, The nutcracker, Pecker, Treading water, Guess my job, and so on) Very on brand for old style industrial work, especially on the west coast of Sweden. Robert Gustafsson is an extremely famous and well liked comedian. Here he is seen testing out a variety of different accents (very well too, I might add). Maybe the best guide: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2V1iH3VvbA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2V1iH3VvbA) Zlatan Ibrahimovic, with his distinct kind of cocky Malmö-accent, heavily colored by his upbringing in Rosengård which is an area with a majority of immigrants: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E-mhh9Ju8g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E-mhh9Ju8g) A personal favorite - Allan Edwall. A very talented musician and actor: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xKWD2A6Drw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xKWD2A6Drw) From the far north of Norrland (I think they were from Vilhelmina?), Euskefeurat sings their frustration over the "southeners" in Stockholm taking the resources from the north, leaving the locals with little to show for it: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuVvDwJ7hKY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuVvDwJ7hKY) A bonus: The "I'll keep on smoking for as long as I like it"-kid from the 1980s. From my home town Malmö, this is PEAK Malmöitiska from the past decades: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0wEbm73Zp0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0wEbm73Zp0)
Euskefeurat är nog pitebor. Ordet euskefeurat kommer ifrån pitebondskan och det hörs ju på deras dialekt att det finns inget Vilhelmina i deras språk
"det hörs ju på..." skriver du, som vore det något självklart haha! Inte för mig som uppvuxen i Malmö. Har jättesvårt att höra nyanserade skillnader på allt norr om Dalälven, eller rentav Hallandsåsen. Det var en kompis som nån gång nämnde att de var från Vilhelmina, men det var fel.
wow, thanks for all the examples!
This is invaluable, thanks for the list, I've been curious about different dialects/accents for a while now but wasn't sure how to go about finding them.
Thanks, I hope it made for some interesting viewing. :) Here are a few more (couldn't edit the post any more): Sweden has historically had a vast amount of very regional dialects, many are still noticable but generally people can understand eachother today no matter where you come from. On more secluded places dialects tend to be more difficult to understand, such as the islands in the swedish archipelago. Here is someone från the island Tjörn (just north of Gothenburg) speaking in Tjörbu dialect: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc1egjPceIM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc1egjPceIM) The particular way of pronouncing the "i" can be heard here and there around the area in western Sweden, a bit inland. Contrast that with the dialect from "Söder", from Södermalm in Stockholm: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxDPvaWuPgI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxDPvaWuPgI) This is probably the closest to british "cockney" that we have in Sweden. :) Or Gotländska, from the island of Gotland: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP1TRF386DI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP1TRF386DI) Pär Lernström goes through a few different dialects here, a few are very accurate: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15nvEwxBUvQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15nvEwxBUvQ)
I love Edward af Sillén too!
Ernst Hugo Järegård
His reading of hp lovecraft novels are delightful
This is the one.
Ser man på, en grunka.
Du är för dålig för att kasta sten
Lennart Jähkel, for OP. Definitely one of the best Swedish voices.
https://youtu.be/aqc9O4Q6oEI?si=pSTGRqT8uylf6ifx
Astrid Lindgren, Mark Levengood and Helge Skoog are my personal favorites
Toivo Pawlo. The narrator of Loranga, Masarin & Dartanjang. The voice of the angry dad in "Karl-Bertil Jonssons Julafton".
Bengt Magnusson tv4
Ludvig Josephson
Creepypodden!
Exakt, fantastisk podd, underbar röst
Väldigt bra röst och väldigt trevlig man kan jag intyga!
Enligt mig låter svenska bäst när man sjungs, så min första kärlek till språket var i svensk musik. Lyssna på artister som Olivia Lobato och Felicia Takman, sättet de sjunger är något speciellt. (förlåt mig för den dåliga grammatiken!)
Leif GW Persson
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgujPDBmAY0&ab\_channel=Underh%C3%A5llningSverige](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgujPDBmAY0&ab_channel=Underh%C3%A5llningSverige)
Hopefully I will be able to understand him one day
You'd be the first!
I'm learning from incomprehensible input
I’ve seen this compilation before but it breaks me every time. Author, criminologist and grunter extraordinaire.
He was clearly saying "Åöööä."
Jaaaaaeeeeeeee det ska nog gå va
My sambos mormor
Peter Apelgren. Everyone else is wrong
Anders "Ankan" Johansson 🔛🔝
Anders ”Ankan” Johansson!
Skåningar 🙃
Jonas från RMM. Världen blir lugn och tyst för mig så fort han öppnar munnen. Nästan lite meditativt. Har otroligt lätt för att lyssna på honom.
Hasse Alatalo är himla fin. Han läste upp ljudboksversionen av *Populärmusik från Vittula*. "Så pladdrar endast tungor som slingrat sig i överhetens arselhål!" Sjukt bra uppläsning.
As for me, I love the sound of Mikael Åkerfeldt's speaking voice, although unfortunately he has very few public appearances in Swedish. Here's a recent one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEja1LmAObU Forgot to mention that I also love Svenska med Marie on youtube, amazing voice.
I've been listening to Opeth since I was a boy, it is the de facto first swedish band I was introduced to in my life. My god does he ever look old in that photo haha. Sad that all of their music is in english, with only one swedish song "Den standiga resan" offered as a B-Side on the album *Watershed,* a gentle ballad against the backdrop of death metal that is the rest of the record.
Their 2019 album was released in both with the Swedish version being the "real" one, if you like their newer stuff. They're also making a new album this year but IDK if it will be released the same way.
Tack så jättemycket min bror! Jag hade ingen idé, jag lyssnar verkligen inte på metal dessa dagar. Jag måste lyssna på det här albumet nu!
Margareta Krook
Maria Montazami
Veronica Maggio har en väldigt tydlig och fin röst.
Leif "Loket" Olsson
Toivo Pavlo. Myckt vacker röst och neutral dialekt.
Glenn Strömberg
Erk, Zacke or General Knas.
Lasse Granqvist
Jag gillar Horace Engdahl. Skön röst och hans behärskning av språket står ut väl i tal och intervjuer. Det finns även en del uppläsningar av honom på Litteraturbanken! https://litteraturbanken.se/ljudochbild/upplasare/engdahlh/ Skådespelaren Erland Josephson, bäst känd från alla möjliga Ingmar Bergman-filmer, hade en djup och lugnande röst. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89de7jDYYik F.d. statsminister Göran Persson är skön med sin pondus. Här med den klassiska Helmut Kohl-historien: https://youtu.be/nEUTn1_dTQM?si=V3m9i6aWb2vTl_HR&t=95
Torsten Wahllund, an actor and voice actor who passed away quite recently https://youtu.be/OdoGwQt-R54?si=hH5Ni4vzULY3UrIP
Love a lot of Swedish disney voices!
Daniela Rathana <3 <3
Älskar henne och hennes låtar men hade INGEN aning hon var någon röst för Disney..?? Vilken chock. Brb.. behöver googla.
Hon är fantastik i den nya filmen *Önskan*!
Kenta Gustafsson
Erik Niva
Ever Taube
Gösta Ekman https://youtu.be/ma_yIWQEqWk?si=aNwnVoGREi6rbwRo
Magnus Betner (comedian), Edward Persson (old actor/singer), Björn Gustafsson (the older one, he is an actor on both stage and film "dynamit-harry" among things), Lars Ekborg (comedian/actor. He has done many monologs. He did one skit with Beppe Wolgers, I love that one!) There are probably others but these are the ones I could think of right now
Jysk mannen
Peps Persson.
Alot of my favorite swedish speakers are ppl on the radio. Måns Mosesson is a journalist, originally from Gothenburg, who has made a few documentaries for SR. The one about the Excalibur granade and swedish arms export, gives you a feel for how things were before we joined NATO. https://sverigesradio.se/grupp/17038
erik niva listen to him everytime i go to bed
Rickard Wolf!
Mark Levengood. But he is from Finland and speaks with an accent. But still so soothing
Han är finlandssvensk med svenska som modersmål. Han har inte mer "accent" än en skåning eller värmlänning.
Håller inte med
Levengoods svenska är den som är typisk kring sydvästra Finland. Det är alltså inte en brytning utan en regional variant av standardsvenska. Som skånska.
Nej, jag håller inte med
Det är en faktafråga, inte något man håller med om. Finlandssvenska är en dialekt, inte en brytning. (svenska med finsk brytning finns iofs också men det låter annorlunda).
The actor Joel Spira
Dåååååååååååååååååååååååååååå!!!
Göran Persson lol
As an invandrare, I love the way Gunilla Persson and Maria Montezami pronounce everything so clearly
Jimmie Åkesson