Windy TranslateMalayalam translation and speech-to-text models ml
2 models into Malayalam, 2 from Malayalam, 13 speech-to-text. Best scored into Malayalam: English to Malayalam (chrF++ 30.7). Best scored from Malayalam: Malayalam to English (chrF++ 29.0).
Which open models work for Malayalam?
Windy Translate lists 2 open translation models into Malayalam and 2 from Malayalam. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 2 Apache-2.0 and 2 CC-BY-4.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 2 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Malayalam is translate-en-ml (chrF++ 30.7, Usable). The best scored from Malayalam is translate-ml-en (chrF++ 29.0, Limited).
With English. English to Malayalam: translate-en-ml (chrF++ 30.7, Usable), the best of 2 direct models. Malayalam to English: translate-ml-en (chrF++ 29.0, Limited), the best of 2 direct models. To translate between Malayalam and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.
By band, the scored Malayalam models are 1 Usable and 1 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. 1 speech-to-text model made for Malayalam: listen-windy-lingua-ml. Also, Whisper's tokenizer lists Malayalam 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 Malayalam
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| English to Malayalam best scored translate-en-ml | 30.7 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| English to Malayalam translate-windy-hplt-en-ml | score withheld | CC-BY-4.0 |
From Malayalam
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Malayalam to English best scored translate-ml-en | 29.0 Limited | Apache-2.0 |
| Malayalam to English translate-windy-hplt-ml-en | not yet scored | CC-BY-4.0 |
Malayalam speech-to-text
| Model | Formats | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| listen-windy-lingua-ml | safetensors | Apache-2.0 |
Scores: chrF++ on FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences, measured 2026-08-04. Method.