Windy TranslateSouth Slavic languages to German translation model translate-tc-big-zls-de
Open machine translation from South Slavic languages into German, published by Windstorm Labs on Hugging Face.
- Task
- Translation: South Slavic languages → German
- Languages
- South Slavic languages zls, German de
- Lineage
- OPUS-MT tc-big
- Format
- transformers (Marian), safetensors
- Hugging Face
- WindyTranslate/translate-tc-big-zls-de
- Last updated on HF
- 2026-08-04
Quality
Not yet scored. FLORES-200 has no test set for South Slavic languages → German, so this pair is outside the screening run.
How to run
Shell
pip install transformers sentencepiece torchPython
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
repo = "WindyTranslate/translate-tc-big-zls-de"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(repo)
batch = tok(["<South Slavic languages 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
- CC-BY-4.0
- Upstream
- Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-big-zls-de
- Upstream licence
- CC-BY-4.0
- Attribution
- Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-big-zls-de 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-zls-de
(https://huggingface.co/WindyTranslate/translate-tc-big-zls-de), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-big-zls-de 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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