Amharic translation and speech-to-text models am

0 models into Amharic, 1 from Amharic, 12 speech-to-text. Best scored from Amharic: Amharic to Swedish (chrF++ 23.1).

Which open models work for Amharic?

Windy Translate lists 0 open translation models into Amharic and 1 from Amharic. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 1 Apache-2.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 1 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. None of the models into Amharic has a score yet. The best scored from Amharic is translate-am-sv (chrF++ 23.1, Limited).

With English. English to Amharic: no direct model here. Amharic to English: no direct model here.

By band, the scored Amharic models are 1 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 Amharic 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 Amharic

None.

From Amharic

Scores: chrF++ on FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences, measured 2026-08-04. Method.