Tsonga translation models ts
4 models into Tsonga, 5 from Tsonga. Best scored into Tsonga: English to Tsonga (chrF++ 44.7). Best scored from Tsonga: Tsonga to English (chrF++ 42.4).
Which open models work for Tsonga?
Windy Translate lists 4 open translation models into Tsonga and 5 from Tsonga. 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 Tsonga is translate-en-ts (chrF++ 44.7, Usable). The best scored from Tsonga is translate-ts-en (chrF++ 42.4, Usable).
With English. English to Tsonga: translate-en-ts (chrF++ 44.7, Usable). Tsonga to English: translate-ts-en (chrF++ 42.4, Usable). To translate between Tsonga and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.
By band, the scored Tsonga 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 Tsonga: 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 Tsonga
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| English to Tsonga best scored translate-en-ts | 44.7 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Swedish to Tsonga translate-sv-ts | 40.3 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| French to Tsonga translate-fr-ts | 38.1 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Finnish to Tsonga translate-fi-ts | 38.0 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
From Tsonga
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Tsonga to English best scored translate-ts-en | 42.4 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Tsonga to Swedish translate-ts-sv | 32.7 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Tsonga to Spanish translate-ts-es | 32.7 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Tsonga to French translate-ts-fr | 31.3 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Tsonga to Finnish translate-ts-fi | 30.6 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
Scores: chrF++ on FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences, measured 2026-08-04. Method.