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English to Somali translation model translate-synthetic-en-so

Open machine translation from English into Somali, published by Windstorm Labs on Hugging Face.

Task: Translation: English → Somali
Languages: English en, Somali so
Lineage: OPUS-MT synthetic
Format: transformers (Marian), safetensors
Hugging Face: WindyTranslate/translate-synthetic-en-so
Last updated on HF: 2026-08-04

Quality

Not yet scored. FLORES-200 has no test set for English → Somali, so this pair is outside the screening run.

How to run

Shell

pip install transformers sentencepiece torch

Python

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM

repo = "WindyTranslate/translate-synthetic-en-so"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(repo)

batch = tok(["Where is the train station?"], 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: CC-BY-4.0
Upstream: Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-synthetic-en-so
Upstream licence: CC-BY-4.0
Attribution: Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-synthetic-en-so by Helsinki-NLP (Language Technology Research Group, University of Helsinki). Licensed CC-BY-4.0.

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NOTICE

This product uses the model WindyTranslate/translate-synthetic-en-so
(https://huggingface.co/WindyTranslate/translate-synthetic-en-so), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-synthetic-en-so by Helsinki-NLP (Language Technology Research Group, University of Helsinki). Licensed CC-BY-4.0.
Windstorm Labs modified the upstream weights; the model card describes what was changed.
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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