Windy TranslateAfrikaans to English translation model translate-af-en
Open machine translation from Afrikaans into English, published by Windstorm Labs on Hugging Face.
- Task
- Translation: Afrikaans → English
- Languages
- Afrikaans af, English en
- Lineage
- OPUS-MT
- Format
- transformers (Marian), safetensors in subfolder
lora/ - Hugging Face
- WindyTranslate/translate-af-en
- Last updated on HF
- 2026-10-01
Quality
| Benchmark | chrF++ | BLEU | Band | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences | 64.43 | 38.48 | Excellent | 2026-08-04 |
A screening score on 48 sentences, not a publication result. Bands: Excellent ≥ 60, Good 45–60, Usable 30–45, Limited 15–30, Not recommended < 15. Method and caveats.
Recorded output (sentence 1, first 110 characters)
- Source
- Op Maandag het wetenskaplikes vanaf die Stanford Universiteit Medieseskool aangekondig dat die uitvinding van …
- Reference
- On Monday, scientists from the Stanford University School of Medicine announced the invention of a new diagnos…
- This model
- On Monday, scientists announced from Stanford University of Medical School that the invention of almonellan di
How to run
Shell
pip install transformers sentencepiece torchPython
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
# This repository keeps its weights in a subfolder.
repo, sub = "WindyTranslate/translate-af-en", "lora"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo, subfolder=sub)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(repo, subfolder=sub)
batch = tok(["<Afrikaans text>"], return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
print(tok.batch_decode(model.generate(**batch), skip_special_tokens=True)[0])Tested: Pattern run on 2026-10-01 against WindyTranslate/translate-af-de (subfolder "lora") with transformers 5.18.0 on CPU. Not run on every model individually.
Licence and attribution
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Upstream
- Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-af-en
- Upstream licence
- Apache-2.0
- Attribution
- Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-af-en by Helsinki-NLP (Language Technology Research Group, University of Helsinki). Licensed Apache-2.0.
Copy this into your NOTICE file (or equivalent) when you ship the model:
NOTICE
This product uses the model WindyTranslate/translate-af-en
(https://huggingface.co/WindyTranslate/translate-af-en), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-af-en by Helsinki-NLP (Language Technology Research Group, University of Helsinki). Licensed Apache-2.0.
Windstorm Labs modified the upstream weights; the model card describes what was changed.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0This is a convenience, not legal advice. See Licensing.
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|---|---|---|
| English to Afrikaans translate-en-af | 60.3 Excellent | Apache-2.0 |
| English to Afrikaans translate-windy-hplt-en-af | score withheld | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Afrikaans to English translate-windy-hplt-af-en | score withheld | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Bulgarian to English translate-tc-big-bg-en | 68.8 Excellent | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Swedish to English translate-sv-en | 67.8 Excellent | Apache-2.0 |
| Danish to English translate-da-en | 66.3 Excellent | Apache-2.0 |
| French to English translate-tc-big-fr-en | 66.2 Excellent | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Maltese to English translate-mt-en | 65.7 Excellent | Apache-2.0 |