Finnish translation and speech-to-text models fi

76 models into Finnish, 102 from Finnish, 13 speech-to-text. Best scored into Finnish: English to Finnish (chrF++ 57.1). Best scored from Finnish: Finnish to English (chrF++ 62.3).

Which open models work for Finnish?

Windy Translate lists 76 open translation models into Finnish and 102 from Finnish (176 different models: some cover both directions). All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 169 Apache-2.0 and 7 CC-BY-4.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 105 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Finnish is translate-tc-big-en-fi (chrF++ 57.1, Good). The best scored from Finnish is translate-tc-big-fi-en (chrF++ 62.3, Excellent).

With English. English to Finnish: translate-tc-big-en-fi (chrF++ 57.1, Good), the best of 3 direct models. Finnish to English: translate-tc-big-fi-en (chrF++ 62.3, Excellent), the best of 3 direct models. To translate between Finnish and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

By band, the scored Finnish models are 1 Excellent, 25 Good, 42 Usable, 35 Limited and 2 Not recommended (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. 1 speech-to-text model made for Finnish: listen-windy-lingua-fi. Also, Whisper's tokenizer lists Finnish 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 Finnish

From Finnish

Finnish speech-to-text

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