Windy TranslateAfrikaans translation and speech-to-text models af
10 models into Afrikaans, 10 from Afrikaans, 12 speech-to-text. Best scored into Afrikaans: English to Afrikaans (chrF++ 60.3). Best scored from Afrikaans: Afrikaans to English (chrF++ 64.4).
Which open models work for Afrikaans?
Windy Translate lists 10 open translation models into Afrikaans and 10 from Afrikaans. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 18 Apache-2.0 and 2 CC-BY-4.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 18 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Afrikaans is translate-en-af (chrF++ 60.3, Excellent). The best scored from Afrikaans is translate-af-en (chrF++ 64.4, Excellent).
With English. English to Afrikaans: translate-en-af (chrF++ 60.3, Excellent), the best of 2 direct models. Afrikaans to English: translate-af-en (chrF++ 64.4, Excellent), the best of 2 direct models. To translate between Afrikaans and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.
By band, the scored Afrikaans models are 2 Excellent, 9 Good, 5 Usable and 2 Limited (Excellent is chrF++ 60 or more, Good 45 to 60, Usable 30 to 45, Limited 15 to 30). A score is a 48-sentence screening of news and encyclopedia text, not a measure of accuracy, and a difference of a point or two is noise. How we measured.
Speech-to-text. Whisper's tokenizer lists Afrikaans as one of its languages, so all 12 multilingual Whisper-based models here can transcribe it: see the speech models. Accuracy differs a lot between languages and model sizes, and this site has not measured speech accuracy.
Each model page has a short snippet to download and run the model yourself, its licence and attribution text, and its score where there is one. Pick the best scored model for your direction, then try it on a few sentences of your own text: a screening score is a starting point, not a guarantee.
Into Afrikaans
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| English to Afrikaans best scored translate-en-af | 60.3 Excellent | Apache-2.0 |
| Swedish to Afrikaans translate-sv-af | 50.0 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| German to Afrikaans translate-de-af | 49.7 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Dutch to Afrikaans translate-nl-af | 48.5 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| French to Afrikaans translate-fr-af | 47.9 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Spanish to Afrikaans translate-es-af | 45.5 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Finnish to Afrikaans translate-fi-af | 44.4 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Russian to Afrikaans translate-ru-af | 41.4 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Esperanto to Afrikaans translate-eo-af | 25.3 Limited | Apache-2.0 |
| English to Afrikaans translate-windy-hplt-en-af | score withheld | CC-BY-4.0 |
From Afrikaans
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans to English best scored translate-af-en | 64.4 Excellent | Apache-2.0 |
| Afrikaans to Swedish translate-af-sv | 49.2 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Afrikaans to Dutch translate-af-nl | 47.5 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Afrikaans to French translate-af-fr | 47.2 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Afrikaans to German translate-af-de | 46.5 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Afrikaans to Spanish translate-af-es | 44.1 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Afrikaans to Finnish translate-af-fi | 41.0 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Afrikaans to Russian translate-af-ru | 33.8 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Afrikaans to Esperanto translate-af-eo | 23.6 Limited | Apache-2.0 |
| Afrikaans to English translate-windy-hplt-af-en | score withheld | CC-BY-4.0 |
Scores: chrF++ on FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences, measured 2026-08-04. Method.