Mizo translation models lus

5 models into Mizo, 5 from Mizo. Best scored into Mizo: English to Mizo (chrF++ 23.4). Best scored from Mizo: Mizo to English (chrF++ 22.3).

Which open models work for Mizo?

Windy Translate lists 5 open translation models into Mizo and 5 from Mizo. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 10 Apache-2.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 10 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Mizo is translate-en-lus (chrF++ 23.4, Limited). The best scored from Mizo is translate-lus-en (chrF++ 22.3, Limited).

With English. English to Mizo: translate-en-lus (chrF++ 23.4, Limited). Mizo to English: translate-lus-en (chrF++ 22.3, Limited). To translate between Mizo and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

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

From Mizo

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