Romanian translation and speech-to-text models ro

8 models into Romanian, 5 from Romanian, 13 speech-to-text. Best scored into Romanian: English to Romanian (chrF++ 64.4). Best scored from Romanian: Romanian to French (chrF++ 60.9).

Which open models work for Romanian?

Windy Translate lists 8 open translation models into Romanian and 5 from Romanian. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 10 Apache-2.0 and 3 CC-BY-4.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 11 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Romanian is translate-tc-big-en-ro (chrF++ 64.4, Excellent). The best scored from Romanian is translate-ro-fr (chrF++ 60.9, Excellent).

With English. English to Romanian: translate-tc-big-en-ro (chrF++ 64.4, Excellent), the best of 2 direct models. Romanian to English: no direct model here.

By band, the scored Romanian models are 2 Excellent, 7 Good and 2 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 Romanian: listen-windy-lingua-ro. Also, Whisper's tokenizer lists Romanian 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 Romanian

From Romanian

Romanian speech-to-text

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