Luganda translation models lg

4 models into Luganda, 5 from Luganda. Best scored into Luganda: Finnish to Luganda (chrF++ 21.3). Best scored from Luganda: Luganda to English (chrF++ 21.9).

Which open models work for Luganda?

Windy Translate lists 4 open translation models into Luganda and 5 from Luganda. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 9 Apache-2.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 9 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Luganda is translate-fi-lg (chrF++ 21.3, Limited). The best scored from Luganda is translate-lg-en (chrF++ 21.9, Limited).

With English. English to Luganda: translate-en-lg (chrF++ 18.9, Limited). Luganda to English: translate-lg-en (chrF++ 21.9, Limited). To translate between Luganda and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

By band, the scored Luganda models are 9 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. No speech model here covers Luganda: 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 Luganda

From Luganda

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