Haitian Creole translation and speech-to-text models ht

6 models into Haitian Creole, 5 from Haitian Creole, 12 speech-to-text. Best scored into Haitian Creole: English to Haitian Creole (chrF++ 32.8). Best scored from Haitian Creole: Haitian Creole to English (chrF++ 32.4).

Which open models work for Haitian Creole?

Windy Translate lists 6 open translation models into Haitian Creole and 5 from Haitian Creole. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 11 Apache-2.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 11 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Haitian Creole is translate-en-ht (chrF++ 32.8, Usable). The best scored from Haitian Creole is translate-ht-en (chrF++ 32.4, Usable).

With English. English to Haitian Creole: translate-en-ht (chrF++ 32.8, Usable). Haitian Creole to English: translate-ht-en (chrF++ 32.4, Usable). To translate between Haitian Creole and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

By band, the scored Haitian Creole models are 3 Usable and 8 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 Haitian Creole 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 Haitian Creole

From Haitian Creole

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