Sesotho translation models st

5 models into Sesotho, 5 from Sesotho. Best scored into Sesotho: English to Sesotho (chrF++ 38.6). Best scored from Sesotho: Sesotho to English (chrF++ 34.6).

Which open models work for Sesotho?

Windy Translate lists 5 open translation models into Sesotho and 5 from Sesotho. 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 Sesotho is translate-en-st (chrF++ 38.6, Usable). The best scored from Sesotho is translate-st-en (chrF++ 34.6, Usable).

With English. English to Sesotho: translate-en-st (chrF++ 38.6, Usable). Sesotho to English: translate-st-en (chrF++ 34.6, Usable). To translate between Sesotho and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

By band, the scored Sesotho models are 6 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 Sesotho: 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 Sesotho

From Sesotho

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