Windy TranslateLatvian translation and speech-to-text models lv
5 models into Latvian, 8 from Latvian, 12 speech-to-text.
Which open models work for Latvian?
Windy Translate lists 5 open translation models into Latvian and 8 from Latvian. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 9 Apache-2.0 and 4 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 Latvian: translate-tc-big-en-lv (not yet scored), the best of 2 direct models. Latvian to English: translate-lv-en (not yet scored), the best of 3 direct models. To translate between Latvian and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.
Speech-to-text. Whisper's tokenizer lists Latvian 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 Latvian
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish to Latvian translate-fi-lv | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Russian to Latvian translate-ru-lv | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Swedish to Latvian translate-sv-lv | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| English to Latvian language-verified translate-tc-big-en-lv | not in FLORES-200 | CC-BY-4.0 |
| English to Latvian translate-windy-hplt-en-lv | not in FLORES-200 | CC-BY-4.0 |
From Latvian
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Latvian to English translate-lv-en | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Latvian to Spanish translate-lv-es | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Latvian to Finnish translate-lv-fi | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Latvian to French translate-lv-fr | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Latvian to Russian translate-lv-ru | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Latvian to Swedish translate-lv-sv | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Latvian to English translate-tc-big-lv-en | not in FLORES-200 | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Latvian to English translate-windy-hplt-lv-en | not yet scored | CC-BY-4.0 |
Scores: chrF++ on FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences, measured 2026-08-04. Method.