Norsk
Norwegian AI Receptionist
Give your Norwegian-speaking customers a helpful answer, even when your team is busy. Our AI receptionist answers in Norwegian or English, books appointments and tours, takes messages and puts callers through to your staff when they need a person.
- Speaks Norwegian and English
- Answers 24/7
Norwegian call
KariOslo Norwegian (Bokmål) accentCaller
Hei! Jeg vil gjerne bestille en tur for fire personer på lørdag.
Hi! I'd like to book a tour for four people on Saturday.
Kari
Hei, så hyggelig! Vi har ledige plasser på lørdag klokka ni og klokka ett. Hva passer for dere?
Hi, lovely! We have places available on Saturday at nine and at one. Which suits you?
Caller
Klokka ni, takk. Jeg heter Ingrid Hansen, og nummeret mitt er null to en, fire fem seks, sju åtte ni.
Nine o'clock, thanks. My name is Ingrid Hansen, and my number is 021 456 789.
What is a Norwegian AI receptionist?
A Norwegian AI receptionist answers your business phone in Norwegian or English, so callers can book, ask a question or leave a message in the language they are most at home in.
Waboom AI offers Kari, a female voice with an Oslo accent speaking Bokmål, with call handling set up around your business. Built for businesses across New Zealand and Australia.
Answering and making calls for businesses across New Zealand and Australia
Try our Norwegian AI receptionist
Talk to Kari in English or Norwegian. Ask for Norwegian, or start your next sentence in it, and she switches with you.
Multilingual receptionistKari
Oslo Norwegian (Bokmål) accent
Start in English, then ask her to speak Norwegian.
Your own AI receptionist is set up around your business: opening hours, services, bookings and how calls are passed to your staff.
Where Norwegian-language phone answering helps
When a Norwegian-speaking caller hears a friendly answer in Norwegian, booking, asking a question or leaving a message is easier for them and for your team.
Tour operators and accommodation
Visitors can book a tour or a room, ask about meeting points and times or change a booking in Norwegian, while your crew stays focused on the guests in front of them.
Accountants and bookkeepers
Clients can book a meeting, check which documents to bring or leave a message for their accountant in Norwegian. Questions that need advice go straight to your team.
Schools and study providers
Families and exchange students can ask about enrolment, term dates and campus tours in Norwegian, book a meeting or leave a message for the office.
Real estate agencies
Buyers and renters can book a viewing or ask about a listing in Norwegian. Your agent gets the caller's details and questions in English, ready to follow up.
How we set up your Norwegian AI receptionist
Three steps. We do the heavy lifting.
Tell us about your callers
Which languages they speak, what they call about, and what a good call ends with: a booking, a message or a transfer.
We build and test it in Norwegian
Your greeting, hours, services and booking rules in English and Norwegian, tested on calls with your own names and places.
Go live on your number
Forward your existing number. Every call comes with a transcript and summary, and we keep improving it.
What makes Norwegian-language calls different?
Speaking Norwegian well on the phone takes more than translating English sentences.
One Oslo voice, many dialects
Kari speaks with an Oslo accent. Only two Norwegian voices with native accents are available, and there is no Western, Trøndelag or Northern Norwegian voice. Callers from Bergen to Tromsø can talk to Kari. We test with your own callers before go-live.
Bokmål, not Nynorsk
Norwegian has two written standards, Bokmål and Nynorsk. Kari speaks a form close to Bokmål, the one most Norwegians write. Callers who speak Nynorsk or a strong dialect can talk to Kari, we test with your own callers before go-live, and your team gets every summary in English.
Phone numbers said in pairs
Norwegians often say phone numbers in pairs, like "førtifem, sekstisju" (45, 67), and some older callers still count "fem og førti" instead of "førtifem". In our tests a spoken phone number came through wrong, so Kari reads every number back digit by digit and asks the caller to confirm before saving it.
Du is polite enough
Modern Norwegian uses "du" with almost everyone, including on a business line. The old formal "De" now sounds stiff or odd to most callers. The receptionist uses du, keeps a friendly tone, and spells out names with æ, ø and å when it needs to confirm them.
An example call in Norwegian
A visitor books a Saturday tour for four people and the agent reads her phone number back digit by digit. Illustrative example, not a recording.
Caller
Hei! Jeg vil gjerne bestille en tur for fire personer på lørdag.
Hi! I'd like to book a tour for four people on Saturday.
Kari
Hei, så hyggelig! Vi har ledige plasser på lørdag klokka ni og klokka ett. Hva passer for dere?
Hi, lovely! We have places available on Saturday at nine and at one. Which suits you?
Caller
Klokka ni, takk. Jeg heter Ingrid Hansen, og nummeret mitt er null to en, fire fem seks, sju åtte ni.
Nine o'clock, thanks. My name is Ingrid Hansen, and my number is 021 456 789.
Kari
Takk, Ingrid. Jeg leser nummeret tilbake, siffer for siffer: null, to, en, fire, fem, seks, sju, åtte, ni. Stemmer det?
Thanks, Ingrid. I'll read the number back, digit by digit: 0 2 1 4 5 6 7 8 9. Is that right?
Caller
Ja, det stemmer.
Yes, that's right.
Kari
Flott. Da har jeg reservert fire plasser lørdag 24. oktober klokka ni. Vi sees på lørdag, ha en fin dag!
Great. I've reserved four places on Saturday 24 October at nine. See you on Saturday, have a nice day!
What the AI can handle
- Answers calls in English and Norwegian
- Books, moves and cancels appointments when connected to your calendar
- Answers common questions from your business information
- Takes messages and sends a call summary to your team
- Transfers a caller to your staff when they need a person
- Covers after-hours and busy periods
Regulated industries
For health, aged care, legal, financial and immigration businesses the agent handles admin enquiries only: bookings, opening hours, directions and messages. It does not give medical, legal or financial advice in Norwegian or English. Those questions go to your qualified staff.
Pay for talk time only
Norwegian calls cost the same per minute as English. Load credit once, it never expires, and every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee.
See full pricing- New Zealand
- 95c to 77c a minute
- Plus GST, from $500 of credit
- Australia
- 95c to 71c a minute
- In AUD, from A$500 of credit
Plus $130 a month for the platform. The more credit you load, the less each minute costs.
Rated 5.0 on Google
Read all reviews on Google (opens in a new tab)- ★★★★★
The AI Receptionist has been fantastic for our team at Rangehood Solutions. It’s taken a huge amount of workload off us, especially when we’re a staff member down, and means we can keep looking after customers without calls being missed.
Rangehood Solutions
AI receptionist client, New Zealand
- ★★★★★
It handles hundreds of calls a day, prospecting, qualifying sellers, and building a pipeline for future deals. … Not a set-and-forget service, they actually care about results.
James Mairs
Auckland apartment agency
- ★★★★★
Getting an entire team, from our IT manager to our admin staff, aligned on AI is not easy. Leo made it look easy! … No hype. No theory.
Shiv Narayan
Technology Solutions NZ
$253,000 saved in one year, by no one being pulled off their work to answer phones.
Every call used to cost someone about 25 minutes: the call itself, then getting back into their work. Across the team that added up to more than 1,650 hours a year. Now their AI receptionist answers every call.
- 4,000 calls answered in a year
- 1,650+ hours of team time back
- <1 sec to answer, every time
Every call answered, every booking captured
AI receptionistCalls answered, messages passed, transfers made
GML Lawyers' AI receptionist answers inbound calls, takes and passes messages to the right person, and transfers callers within their existing VoIP system.
Bookings taken while hands are full
While the stylists are mid-colour, the AI receptionist answers, books the appointment, and texts the client a confirmation. No ringing phone, no lost chair.
Switch off, let the AI hold the phone
Start delegating the admin to AI and get your time back. Your receptionist answers every call, books the job, and passes only the urgent ones to you.
Norwegian AI receptionist: common questions
Which Norwegian accents does the AI receptionist speak?
One: Kari has a female voice with an Oslo accent, speaking Bokmål. Only two Norwegian voices with native accents are available, and there is no Western, Trøndelag or Northern Norwegian voice. Callers with other dialects can talk to Kari too, and before go-live we run test calls with your own callers so you can hear how it handles them.
Can callers switch between English and Norwegian?
Yes. The receptionist switches to Norwegian when a caller asks for it or starts speaking Norwegian, and back to English the same way. It switches between turns, not in the middle of a sentence, so it is easiest to follow when each sentence stays in one language.
Does it understand phone numbers spoken in Norwegian?
Not perfectly on its own. In our tests a phone number spoken in Norwegian came through with a mistake, so Kari reads every number back to the caller digit by digit and asks them to confirm before saving it. Any error gets fixed on the call.
Can callers with a strong dialect use it?
Yes, they can talk to it. Kari replies in Oslo Norwegian whatever dialect the caller speaks. Before go-live we run test calls with your own callers so you can hear how it handles their dialect.
Can I try a Norwegian demo now?
Yes. Talk to the Norwegian agent on this page, in your browser. Calls run for up to four minutes.
Can we keep our 1300 or 1800 number?
Yes. You keep your number and forward calls to the AI receptionist, all the time or only when you are busy, do not answer or are closed. A mobile number can forward the same way. You do not need a new number.
Can it transfer calls to our staff and send a summary?
Yes. It can put a caller through to a staff member's mobile when they need a person, and it sends a summary of every call to your team, with the transcript in your portal.
Can it give medical, legal or financial advice in Norwegian?
No. In regulated industries the agent handles admin only: bookings, opening hours, directions and messages. Anything that needs advice goes to your qualified staff.
Does a Norwegian receptionist cost more than English?
No. Norwegian calls are charged at the same per-minute rate as English, from 95c a minute down to 77c in New Zealand and 71c in Australia. Credit never expires and every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Where is call data stored?
Transcripts, call records, contact details and billing are stored in Sydney. The live audio, recording files, speech processing and the language model run offshore. We meet cross-border accountability requirements through documented arrangements with our voice infrastructure partner.
Ready to welcome more Norwegian-speaking customers?
Tell us what your customers usually call about, and we will show you how a Norwegian-speaking AI receptionist would handle those calls.
- Answers in Norwegian and English, around the clock
- Built around your services, hours and booking rules
- Credit that never expires, from $500
- Every plan backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee
Choose a time on our calendar. It takes less than a minute.
Less Busy. More Life.
