Macedonian translation and speech-to-text models mk
5 models into Macedonian, 5 from Macedonian, 12 speech-to-text. Best scored into Macedonian: English to Macedonian (chrF++ 55.1). Best scored from Macedonian: Macedonian to English (chrF++ 58.7).
Which open models work for Macedonian?
Windy Translate lists 5 open translation models into Macedonian and 5 from Macedonian. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 7 Apache-2.0 and 3 CC-BY-4.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 7 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Macedonian is translate-en-mk (chrF++ 55.1, Good). The best scored from Macedonian is translate-mk-en (chrF++ 58.7, Good).
With English. English to Macedonian: translate-en-mk (chrF++ 55.1, Good), the best of 3 direct models. Macedonian to English: translate-mk-en (chrF++ 58.7, Good), the best of 2 direct models. To translate between Macedonian and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.
By band, the scored Macedonian models are 4 Good and 3 Usable (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. Whisper's tokenizer lists Macedonian 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 Macedonian
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| English to Macedonian best scored translate-en-mk | 55.1 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Spanish to Macedonian translate-es-mk | 45.9 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Finnish to Macedonian translate-fi-mk | 39.0 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| English to Macedonian translate-synthetic-en-mk | not in FLORES-200 | CC-BY-4.0 |
| English to Macedonian translate-windy-hplt-en-mk | score withheld | CC-BY-4.0 |
From Macedonian
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Macedonian to English best scored translate-mk-en | 58.7 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Macedonian to French translate-mk-fr | 48.7 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Macedonian to Spanish translate-mk-es | 44.8 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Macedonian to Finnish translate-mk-fi | 40.6 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Macedonian to English translate-windy-hplt-mk-en | not yet scored | CC-BY-4.0 |
Scores: chrF++ on FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences, measured 2026-08-04. Method.