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Spanish to Northern Sotho translation model translate-es-nso

Open machine translation from Spanish into Northern Sotho, published by Windstorm Labs on Hugging Face.

Task
Translation: Spanish → Northern Sotho
Languages
Spanish es, Northern Sotho nso
Lineage
OPUS-MT
Format
transformers (Marian), safetensors
Hugging Face
WindyTranslate/translate-es-nso
Last updated on HF
2026-08-04

Quality

BenchmarkchrF++BLEUBandMeasured
FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences36.769.16Usable2026-08-04

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
El lunes, los científicos de la facultad de medicina de la Universidad de Stanford anunciaron el invento de un…
Reference
Ka Mošupulogo, boramahlale ba go tšwa Sekolong sa Yunibesithi ya Stanford sa Medicine ba tsebišitše ka go dirw…
This model
Ka Mošupologo, bo - ra - thutamahlale ba tša kalafo Yunibesithing ya Stanford ba ile ba utolla sedirišwa se se

How to run

Shell
pip install transformers sentencepiece torch
Python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM

repo = "WindyTranslate/translate-es-nso"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(repo)

batch = tok(["<Spanish 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-tc-big-en-fr with transformers 4.57.6 and 5.18.0 on CPU ("Où se trouve la gare ?"); multi-target token prefix run against translate-tc-bible-big-mul-deu_eng_nld. Not run on every model individually.

Licence and attribution

Licence
Apache-2.0
Upstream
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-es-nso
Upstream licence
Apache-2.0
Attribution
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-es-nso by Helsinki-NLP (Language Technology Research Group, University of Helsinki). Licensed Apache-2.0.

Copy this into your NOTICE file (or equivalent) when you ship the model:

NOTICE
This product uses the model WindyTranslate/translate-es-nso
(https://huggingface.co/WindyTranslate/translate-es-nso), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-es-nso by Helsinki-NLP (Language Technology Research Group, University of Helsinki). Licensed Apache-2.0.
Windstorm Labs modified the upstream weights; the model card describes what was changed.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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

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