Ukrainian translation and speech-to-text models uk

28 models into Ukrainian, 26 from Ukrainian, 12 speech-to-text. Best scored into Ukrainian: Russian to Ukrainian (chrF++ 51.3). Best scored from Ukrainian: Ukrainian to English (chrF++ 53.6).

Which open models work for Ukrainian?

Windy Translate lists 28 open translation models into Ukrainian and 26 from Ukrainian. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 41 Apache-2.0 and 13 CC-BY-4.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 39 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Ukrainian is translate-ru-uk (chrF++ 51.3, Good). The best scored from Ukrainian is translate-uk-en (chrF++ 53.6, Good).

With English. English to Ukrainian: translate-en-uk (chrF++ 41.5, Usable), the best of 3 direct models. Ukrainian to English: translate-uk-en (chrF++ 53.6, Good), the best of 2 direct models. To translate between Ukrainian and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

By band, the scored Ukrainian models are 6 Good, 30 Usable, 1 Limited and 2 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. Whisper's tokenizer lists Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian

From Ukrainian

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