Kannada translation and speech-to-text models kn

1 model into Kannada, 1 from Kannada, 12 speech-to-text.

Which open models work for Kannada?

Windy Translate lists 1 open translation model into Kannada and 1 from Kannada. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 2 CC-BY-4.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). None of them has a screening score yet, so test them on your own text before you rely on them.

With English. English to Kannada: translate-windy-hplt-en-kn (not yet scored). Kannada to English: translate-windy-hplt-kn-en (not yet scored). To translate between Kannada and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

Speech-to-text. Whisper's tokenizer lists Kannada 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 Kannada

From Kannada

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