Luo translation models luo
1 model into Luo, 1 from Luo. Best scored into Luo: English to Luo (chrF++ 25.1). Best scored from Luo: Luo to English (chrF++ 24.0).
Which open models work for Luo?
Windy Translate lists 1 open translation model into Luo and 1 from Luo. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 2 Apache-2.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 2 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Luo is translate-en-luo (chrF++ 25.1, Limited). The best scored from Luo is translate-luo-en (chrF++ 24.0, Limited).
With English. English to Luo: translate-en-luo (chrF++ 25.1, Limited). Luo to English: translate-luo-en (chrF++ 24.0, Limited). To translate between Luo and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.
By band, the scored Luo models are 2 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 Luo: 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 Luo
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| English to Luo best scored translate-en-luo | 25.1 Limited | Apache-2.0 |
From Luo
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Luo to English best scored translate-luo-en | 24.0 Limited | Apache-2.0 |
Scores: chrF++ on FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences, measured 2026-08-04. Method.