Tswana translation models tn

5 models into Tswana, 4 from Tswana. Best scored into Tswana: English to Tswana (chrF++ 39.1). Best scored from Tswana: Tswana to English (chrF++ 38.0).

Which open models work for Tswana?

Windy Translate lists 5 open translation models into Tswana and 4 from Tswana. 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 Tswana is translate-en-tn (chrF++ 39.1, Usable). The best scored from Tswana is translate-tn-en (chrF++ 38.0, Usable).

With English. English to Tswana: translate-en-tn (chrF++ 39.1, Usable). Tswana to English: translate-tn-en (chrF++ 38.0, Usable). To translate between Tswana and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

By band, the scored Tswana models are 9 Usable (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 Tswana: 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 Tswana

From Tswana

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