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English to North Germanic languages translation model translate-tc-big-en-gmq

Open machine translation from English into North Germanic languages, published by Windstorm Labs on Hugging Face. This model covers several target languages; see the snippet for the target token.

Task
Translation: English → North Germanic languages
Languages
English en, North Germanic languages gmq
Lineage
OPUS-MT tc-big
Format
transformers (Marian), safetensors
Hugging Face
WindyTranslate/translate-tc-big-en-gmq
Last updated on HF
2026-08-04

Quality

Not yet scored. FLORES-200 has no test set for English → North Germanic languages, so this pair is outside the screening run. It did pass a GlotLID language-identity check (SCRIPT-OK): the output is in the language it claims. That says nothing about how good the translation is.

How to run

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

repo = "WindyTranslate/translate-tc-big-en-gmq"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(repo)

# Several target languages: start each input with a target token such as >>xxx<<.
# The valid tokens are listed in the upstream model card.
batch = tok([">>xxx<< 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-tc-big-en-gmq
Upstream licence
CC-BY-4.0
Attribution
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-big-en-gmq by Helsinki-NLP (Language Technology Research Group, University of Helsinki). Licensed CC-BY-4.0.

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

NOTICE
This product uses the model WindyTranslate/translate-tc-big-en-gmq
(https://huggingface.co/WindyTranslate/translate-tc-big-en-gmq), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-big-en-gmq 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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