Sango translation models sg

5 models into Sango, 5 from Sango. Best scored into Sango: English to Sango (chrF++ 25.9). Best scored from Sango: Sango to Spanish (chrF++ 20.1).

Which open models work for Sango?

Windy Translate lists 5 open translation models into Sango and 5 from Sango. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 10 Apache-2.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 10 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Sango is translate-en-sg (chrF++ 25.9, Limited). The best scored from Sango is translate-sg-es (chrF++ 20.1, Limited).

With English. English to Sango: translate-en-sg (chrF++ 25.9, Limited). Sango to English: translate-sg-en (chrF++ 19.9, Limited). To translate between Sango and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

By band, the scored Sango models are 10 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 Sango: 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 Sango

From Sango

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