Luba-Kasai translation models lua

6 models into Luba-Kasai, 5 from Luba-Kasai. Best scored into Luba-Kasai: English to Luba-Kasai (chrF++ 28.1). Best scored from Luba-Kasai: Luba-Kasai to English (chrF++ 23.2).

Which open models work for Luba-Kasai?

Windy Translate lists 6 open translation models into Luba-Kasai and 5 from Luba-Kasai. 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 Luba-Kasai is translate-en-lua (chrF++ 28.1, Limited). The best scored from Luba-Kasai is translate-lua-en (chrF++ 23.2, Limited).

With English. English to Luba-Kasai: translate-en-lua (chrF++ 28.1, Limited). Luba-Kasai to English: translate-lua-en (chrF++ 23.2, Limited). To translate between Luba-Kasai and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

By band, the scored Luba-Kasai models are 11 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 Luba-Kasai: 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 Luba-Kasai

From Luba-Kasai

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