Northern Sotho translation models nso

6 models into Northern Sotho, 6 from Northern Sotho. Best scored into Northern Sotho: English to Northern Sotho (chrF++ 43.4). Best scored from Northern Sotho: Northern Sotho to English (chrF++ 41.5).

Which open models work for Northern Sotho?

Windy Translate lists 6 open translation models into Northern Sotho and 6 from Northern Sotho. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 12 Apache-2.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 12 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Northern Sotho is translate-en-nso (chrF++ 43.4, Usable). The best scored from Northern Sotho is translate-nso-en (chrF++ 41.5, Usable).

With English. English to Northern Sotho: translate-en-nso (chrF++ 43.4, Usable). Northern Sotho to English: translate-nso-en (chrF++ 41.5, Usable). To translate between Northern Sotho and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

By band, the scored Northern Sotho models are 8 Usable and 4 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 Northern Sotho: 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 Northern Sotho

From Northern Sotho

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