Windy TranslateFrench to Northern Sotho translation model translate-fr-nso
Open machine translation from French into Northern Sotho, published by Windstorm Labs on Hugging Face.
- Task
- Translation: French → Northern Sotho
- Languages
- French fr, Northern Sotho nso
- Lineage
- OPUS-MT
- Format
- transformers (Marian), safetensors
- Hugging Face
- WindyTranslate/translate-fr-nso
- Last updated on HF
- 2026-08-04
Quality
| Benchmark | chrF++ | BLEU | Band | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences | 34.58 | 9.44 | Usable | 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
- Des scientifiques de l’école de médecine de l’université de Stanford ont annoncé ce lundi la création d'un nou…
- Reference
- Ka Mošupulogo, boramahlale ba go tšwa Sekolong sa Yunibesithi ya Stanford sa Medicine ba tsebišitše ka go dirw…
- This model
- Bo - rathutamahlale ba sekolong se se phagamego sa tša kalafo sa Yunibesithing ya nyaka thušo ya malwetši a ba
How to run
Shell
pip install transformers sentencepiece torchPython
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
repo = "WindyTranslate/translate-fr-nso"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(repo)
batch = tok(["<French 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-fr-nso
- Upstream licence
- Apache-2.0
- Attribution
- Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-fr-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-fr-nso
(https://huggingface.co/WindyTranslate/translate-fr-nso), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-fr-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-2.0This is a convenience, not legal advice. See Licensing.
Related models
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Northern Sotho to French translate-nso-fr | 29.4 Limited | Apache-2.0 |
| French to English translate-tc-big-fr-en | 66.2 Excellent | CC-BY-4.0 |
| French to English translate-fr-en | 63.1 Excellent | Apache-2.0 |
| French to Catalan translate-fr-ca | 55.4 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| French to Romanian translate-fr-ro | 54.3 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| French to German translate-fr-de | 51.8 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| French to Spanish translate-fr-es | 51.4 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| French to Indonesian translate-fr-id | 51.2 Good | Apache-2.0 |