Kirundi translation models rn

6 models into Kirundi, 8 from Kirundi. Best scored into Kirundi: English to Kirundi (chrF++ 33.4). Best scored from Kirundi: Kirundi to English (chrF++ 35.5).

Which open models work for Kirundi?

Windy Translate lists 6 open translation models into Kirundi and 8 from Kirundi. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 14 Apache-2.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 14 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Kirundi is translate-en-rn (chrF++ 33.4, Usable). The best scored from Kirundi is translate-rn-en (chrF++ 35.5, Usable).

With English. English to Kirundi: translate-en-rn (chrF++ 33.4, Usable), the best of 2 direct models. Kirundi to English: translate-rn-en (chrF++ 35.5, Usable), the best of 2 direct models. To translate between Kirundi and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

By band, the scored Kirundi models are 6 Usable and 8 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 Kirundi: 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 Kirundi

From Kirundi

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