Windy TranslateAmerican Sign Language translation models ase
4 models into American Sign Language, 5 from American Sign Language.
Which open models work for American Sign Language?
Windy Translate lists 4 open translation models into American Sign Language and 5 from American Sign Language. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 9 Apache-2.0 (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 American Sign Language: no direct model here. American Sign Language to English: translate-ase-en (not yet scored).
Speech-to-text. No speech model here covers American Sign Language: there is no dedicated model, and Whisper's tokenizer does not list the language.
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 American Sign Language
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| German to American Sign Language translate-de-ase | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Spanish to American Sign Language translate-es-ase | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| French to American Sign Language translate-fr-ase | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Swedish to American Sign Language translate-sv-ase | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
From American Sign Language
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| American Sign Language to German translate-ase-de | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| American Sign Language to English translate-ase-en | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| American Sign Language to Spanish translate-ase-es | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| American Sign Language to French translate-ase-fr | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| American Sign Language to Swedish translate-ase-sv | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
Scores: chrF++ on FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences, measured 2026-08-04. Method.