Xhosa translation models xh

5 models into Xhosa, 4 from Xhosa. Best scored into Xhosa: English to Xhosa (chrF++ 39.1). Best scored from Xhosa: Xhosa to English (chrF++ 44.9).

Which open models work for Xhosa?

Windy Translate lists 5 open translation models into Xhosa and 4 from Xhosa. 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 Xhosa is translate-en-xh (chrF++ 39.1, Usable). The best scored from Xhosa is translate-xh-en (chrF++ 44.9, Usable).

With English. English to Xhosa: translate-en-xh (chrF++ 39.1, Usable). Xhosa to English: translate-xh-en (chrF++ 44.9, Usable). To translate between Xhosa and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

By band, the scored Xhosa 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 Xhosa: 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 Xhosa

From Xhosa

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