Windy TranslateTurkish translation and speech-to-text models tr
12 models into Turkish, 12 from Turkish, 12 speech-to-text. Best scored into Turkish: English to Turkish (chrF++ 61.5). Best scored from Turkish: Turkish to English (chrF++ 64.0).
Which open models work for Turkish?
Windy Translate lists 12 open translation models into Turkish and 12 from Turkish. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 16 Apache-2.0 and 8 CC-BY-4.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 14 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Turkish is translate-tc-big-en-tr (chrF++ 61.5, Excellent). The best scored from Turkish is translate-tc-big-tr-en (chrF++ 64.0, Excellent).
With English. English to Turkish: translate-tc-big-en-tr (chrF++ 61.5, Excellent), the best of 2 direct models. Turkish to English: translate-tc-big-tr-en (chrF++ 64.0, Excellent), the best of 3 direct models. To translate between Turkish and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.
By band, the scored Turkish models are 2 Excellent, 5 Good, 5 Usable and 2 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. Whisper's tokenizer lists Turkish as one of its languages, so all 12 multilingual Whisper-based models here can transcribe it: see the speech models. Accuracy differs a lot between languages and model sizes, and this site has not measured speech accuracy.
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 Turkish
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| English to Turkish best scored translate-tc-big-en-tr | 61.5 Excellent | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Bulgarian to Turkish translate-bg-tr | 47.1 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Finnish to Turkish translate-fi-tr | 41.7 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Ukrainian to Turkish translate-uk-tr | 36.5 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Lithuanian to Turkish translate-lt-tr | 35.0 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Japanese to Turkish translate-ja-tr | 30.0 Limited | Apache-2.0 |
| Arabic to Turkish translate-ar-tr | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Azerbaijani to Turkish translate-az-tr | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Ukrainian to Turkish translate-tc-base-uk-tr | not in FLORES-200 | CC-BY-4.0 |
| North Germanic languages to Turkish translate-tc-big-gmq-tr | not in FLORES-200 | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Italic languages to Turkish translate-tc-big-itc-tr | not in FLORES-200 | CC-BY-4.0 |
| English to Turkish translate-windy-hplt-en-tr | score withheld | CC-BY-4.0 |
From Turkish
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish to English best scored translate-tc-big-tr-en | 64.0 Excellent | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Turkish to English translate-tr-en | 58.4 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Turkish to French translate-tr-fr | 49.9 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Turkish to Swedish translate-tr-sv | 46.6 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Turkish to Spanish translate-tr-es | 45.9 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Turkish to Lithuanian translate-tr-lt | 36.0 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Turkish to Ukrainian translate-tr-uk | 33.4 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Turkish to Esperanto translate-tr-eo | 19.1 Limited | Apache-2.0 |
| Turkish to Ukrainian translate-tc-base-tr-uk | not in FLORES-200 | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Turkish to Arabic translate-tr-ar | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Turkish to Azerbaijani translate-tr-az | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| Turkish to English translate-windy-hplt-tr-en | not yet scored | CC-BY-4.0 |
Scores: chrF++ on FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences, measured 2026-08-04. Method.