Tigrinya translation models ti

1 model into Tigrinya, 1 from Tigrinya. Best scored into Tigrinya: English to Tigrinya (chrF++ 13.1). Best scored from Tigrinya: Tigrinya to English (chrF++ 24.0).

Which open models work for Tigrinya?

Windy Translate lists 1 open translation model into Tigrinya and 1 from Tigrinya. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 2 Apache-2.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 2 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Tigrinya is translate-en-ti (chrF++ 13.1, Not recommended). The best scored from Tigrinya is translate-ti-en (chrF++ 24.0, Limited).

With English. English to Tigrinya: translate-en-ti (chrF++ 13.1, Not recommended). Tigrinya to English: translate-ti-en (chrF++ 24.0, Limited). To translate between Tigrinya and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

By band, the scored Tigrinya models are 1 Limited and 1 Not recommended (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 Tigrinya: 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 Tigrinya

From Tigrinya

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