Windy TranslateSango to English translation model translate-sg-en
Open machine translation from Sango into English, published by Windstorm Labs on Hugging Face.
- Task
- Translation: Sango → English
- Languages
- Sango sg, English en
- Lineage
- OPUS-MT
- Format
- transformers (Marian), safetensors
- Hugging Face
- WindyTranslate/translate-sg-en
- Last updated on HF
- 2026-08-04
Quality
| Benchmark | chrF++ | BLEU | Band | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences | 19.88 | 1.28 | Limited | 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
- Na Bikua ôko, â wagingô ndâ ti yé ti dä sendagigi ti Stanford ti mandango yé na ndô ti Séni a fa na gigi sô al…
- Reference
- On Monday, scientists from the Stanford University School of Medicine announced the invention of a new diagnos…
- This model
- At the end of the program, the library at the University of Ota University of Scca, appeared on top of each ed
How to run
Shell
pip install transformers sentencepiece torchPython
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
repo = "WindyTranslate/translate-sg-en"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(repo)
batch = tok(["<Sango 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-sg-en
- Upstream licence
- Apache-2.0
- Attribution
- Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-sg-en 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-sg-en
(https://huggingface.co/WindyTranslate/translate-sg-en), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-sg-en 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 |
|---|---|---|
| English to Sango translate-en-sg | 25.9 Limited | Apache-2.0 |
| Bulgarian to English translate-tc-big-bg-en | 68.8 Excellent | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Swedish to English translate-sv-en | 67.8 Excellent | Apache-2.0 |
| Danish to English translate-da-en | 66.3 Excellent | Apache-2.0 |
| French to English translate-tc-big-fr-en | 66.2 Excellent | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Maltese to English translate-mt-en | 65.7 Excellent | Apache-2.0 |
| German to English translate-de-en | 65.4 Excellent | Apache-2.0 |
| Hebrew to English translate-tc-big-he-en | 64.6 Excellent | CC-BY-4.0 |