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Afrikaans to French translation model translate-af-fr

Open machine translation from Afrikaans into French, published by Windstorm Labs on Hugging Face.

Task: Translation: Afrikaans → French
Languages: Afrikaans af, French fr
Lineage: OPUS-MT
Format: transformers (Marian), safetensors in subfolder lora/
Hugging Face: WindyTranslate/translate-af-fr
Last updated on HF: 2026-08-06

Quality

Benchmark	chrF++	BLEU	Band	Measured
FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences	47.17	23.46	Good	2026-08-04

A screening score on 48 sentences, not a publication result. Bands: Excellent ≥ 60, Good 45–60, Usable 30–45, Limited 15–30, Not recommended < 15. Method and caveats.

Recorded output (sentence 1, first 110 characters)

Source: Op Maandag het wetenskaplikes vanaf die Stanford Universiteit Medieseskool aangekondig dat die uitvinding van …
Reference: Des scientifiques de l’école de médecine de l’université de Stanford ont annoncé ce lundi la création d'un nou…
This model: Le lundi, des scientifiques de l'université de médecine Stanford ont annoncé que l'invention d'un outil de dia

How to run

Shell

pip install transformers sentencepiece torch

Python

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM

# This repository keeps its weights in a subfolder.
repo, sub = "WindyTranslate/translate-af-fr", "lora"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo, subfolder=sub)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(repo, subfolder=sub)

batch = tok(["<Afrikaans text>"], return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
print(tok.batch_decode(model.generate(**batch), skip_special_tokens=True)[0])

Tested: Pattern run on 2026-10-01 against WindyTranslate/translate-af-de (subfolder "lora") with transformers 5.18.0 on CPU. Not run on every model individually.

Licence and attribution

Licence: CC-BY-4.0 licence under review
Upstream: Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-af-fr (inferred from the repository name)
Upstream licence: Apache-2.0
Attribution: Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-af-fr by Helsinki-NLP (Language Technology Research Group, University of Helsinki). Licensed Apache-2.0.

Under review: the Hugging Face card for this repository is tagged CC-BY-4.0, but its upstream (Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-af-fr) is published under Apache-2.0. Until this is resolved, keep the upstream Apache-2.0 terms and attribution with any copy you distribute.

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NOTICE

This product uses the model WindyTranslate/translate-af-fr
(https://huggingface.co/WindyTranslate/translate-af-fr), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-af-fr by Helsinki-NLP (Language Technology Research Group, University of Helsinki). Licensed Apache-2.0.
See the model card for the changes Windstorm Labs made.
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This is a convenience, not legal advice. See Licensing.

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