Windy TranslateArabic translation and speech-to-text models ar
14 models into Arabic, 14 from Arabic, 14 speech-to-text.
Which open models work for Arabic?
Windy Translate lists 14 open translation models into Arabic and 14 from Arabic. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 22 Apache-2.0 and 6 CC-BY-4.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). None of them has a screening score yet: FLORES-200, the test set used here, does not cover these pairs, so test them on your own text before you rely on them.
With English. English to Arabic: translate-en-ar (not yet scored), the best of 2 direct models. Arabic to English: translate-ar-en (not yet scored), the best of 2 direct models. To translate between Arabic and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.
Speech-to-text. 2 speech-to-text models made for Arabic: listen-windy-lingua-ar and listen-windy-lingua-ar-ct2. Also, Whisper's tokenizer lists Arabic 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 Arabic
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| German to Arabic translate-de-ar | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Greek to Arabic translate-el-ar | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| English to Arabic language-verified translate-en-ar | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Spanish to Arabic translate-es-ar | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| French to Arabic translate-fr-ar | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Hebrew to Arabic translate-he-ar | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Italian to Arabic translate-it-ar | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Japanese to Arabic translate-ja-ar | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Polish to Arabic translate-pl-ar | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Russian to Arabic translate-ru-ar | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| English to Arabic language-verified translate-tc-big-en-ar | not in FLORES-200 | CC-BY-4.0 |
| North Germanic languages to Arabic translate-tc-big-gmq-ar | not in FLORES-200 | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Italic languages to Arabic translate-tc-big-itc-ar | not in FLORES-200 | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Turkish to Arabic translate-tr-ar | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
From Arabic
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic to German translate-ar-de | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Arabic to Greek translate-ar-el | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Arabic to English translate-ar-en | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Arabic to Esperanto translate-ar-eo | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Arabic to Spanish translate-ar-es | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Arabic to French translate-ar-fr | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Arabic to Hebrew translate-ar-he | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Arabic to Italian translate-ar-it | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Arabic to Polish translate-ar-pl | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Arabic to Russian translate-ar-ru | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Arabic to Turkish translate-ar-tr | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Arabic to English translate-tc-big-ar-en | not in FLORES-200 | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Arabic to North Germanic languages translate-tc-big-ar-gmq | not in FLORES-200 | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Arabic to Italic languages translate-tc-big-ar-itc | not in FLORES-200 | CC-BY-4.0 |
Arabic speech-to-text
| Model | Formats | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| listen-windy-lingua-ar | safetensors | Apache-2.0 |
| listen-windy-lingua-ar-ct2 | ct2-int8 | Apache-2.0 |
Scores: chrF++ on FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences, measured 2026-08-04. Method.