Igbo translation and speech-to-text models ig

6 models into Igbo, 6 from Igbo, 1 speech-to-text. Best scored into Igbo: English to Igbo (chrF++ 30.4). Best scored from Igbo: Igbo to English (chrF++ 30.5).

Which open models work for Igbo?

Windy Translate lists 6 open translation models into Igbo and 6 from Igbo. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 12 Apache-2.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 12 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Igbo is translate-en-ig (chrF++ 30.4, Usable). The best scored from Igbo is translate-ig-en (chrF++ 30.5, Usable).

With English. English to Igbo: translate-en-ig (chrF++ 30.4, Usable). Igbo to English: translate-ig-en (chrF++ 30.5, Usable). To translate between Igbo and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

By band, the scored Igbo models are 2 Usable and 10 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. 1 speech-to-text model made for Igbo: listen-windy-lingua-ig. Whisper's tokenizer does not list this language, so the multilingual speech models are not a fit for it.

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 Igbo

From Igbo

Igbo speech-to-text

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