Kinyarwanda translation models rw

5 models into Kinyarwanda, 4 from Kinyarwanda. Best scored into Kinyarwanda: English to Kinyarwanda (chrF++ 32.2). Best scored from Kinyarwanda: Kinyarwanda to English (chrF++ 33.7).

Which open models work for Kinyarwanda?

Windy Translate lists 5 open translation models into Kinyarwanda and 4 from Kinyarwanda. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 9 Apache-2.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 9 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Kinyarwanda is translate-en-rw (chrF++ 32.2, Usable). The best scored from Kinyarwanda is translate-rw-en (chrF++ 33.7, Usable).

With English. English to Kinyarwanda: translate-en-rw (chrF++ 32.2, Usable). Kinyarwanda to English: translate-rw-en (chrF++ 33.7, Usable). To translate between Kinyarwanda and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

By band, the scored Kinyarwanda models are 3 Usable and 6 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 Kinyarwanda: 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 Kinyarwanda

From Kinyarwanda

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