Cebuano translation models ceb

5 models into Cebuano, 5 from Cebuano. Best scored into Cebuano: English to Cebuano (chrF++ 55.2). Best scored from Cebuano: Cebuano to English (chrF++ 56.2).

Which open models work for Cebuano?

Windy Translate lists 5 open translation models into Cebuano and 5 from Cebuano. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 10 Apache-2.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 10 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Cebuano is translate-en-ceb (chrF++ 55.2, Good). The best scored from Cebuano is translate-ceb-en (chrF++ 56.2, Good).

With English. English to Cebuano: translate-en-ceb (chrF++ 55.2, Good). Cebuano to English: translate-ceb-en (chrF++ 56.2, Good). To translate between Cebuano and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

By band, the scored Cebuano models are 3 Good and 7 Usable (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. No speech model here covers Cebuano: 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 Cebuano

From Cebuano

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