Windy TranslateRussian to Afrikaans translation model translate-ru-af
Open machine translation from Russian into Afrikaans, published by Windstorm Labs on Hugging Face.
- Task
- Translation: Russian → Afrikaans
- Languages
- Russian ru, Afrikaans af
- Lineage
- OPUS-MT
- Format
- transformers (Marian), safetensors
- Hugging Face
- WindyTranslate/translate-ru-af
- Last updated on HF
- 2026-08-04
Quality
| Benchmark | chrF++ | BLEU | Band | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences | 41.43 | 14.26 | 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
- В понедельник ученые из Медицинской школы Стэнфордского университета объявили об изобретении нового диагностич…
- Reference
- Op Maandag het wetenskaplikes vanaf die Stanford Universiteit Medieseskool aangekondig dat die uitvinding van …
- This model
- Maandag het wetenskaplikes by die Stanford - universiteit se Mediese Fakulteit aangekondig dat hulle ’ n nuwe
How to run
Shell
pip install transformers sentencepiece torchPython
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
repo = "WindyTranslate/translate-ru-af"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(repo)
batch = tok(["<Russian 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-ru-af
- Upstream licence
- Apache-2.0
- Attribution
- Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-ru-af 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-ru-af
(https://huggingface.co/WindyTranslate/translate-ru-af), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-ru-af 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans to Russian translate-af-ru | 33.8 Usable | CC-BY-4.0 licence under review |
| English to Afrikaans translate-en-af | 60.3 Excellent | Apache-2.0 |
| Russian to English translate-ru-en | 56.5 Good | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Russian to French translate-ru-fr | 53.1 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Russian to Ukrainian translate-ru-uk | 51.3 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Swedish to Afrikaans translate-sv-af | 50.0 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Russian to Bulgarian translate-ru-bg | 50.0 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| German to Afrikaans translate-de-af | 49.7 Good | Apache-2.0 |