WindyWord.ai Translation — Afrikaans → English
Part of the Windstorm Labs open model catalogue. Scores, licence and attribution for every model: https://windytranslate.com/models/translate-af-en
Translates Afrikaans → English.
Evaluation
| Benchmark | chrF++ | BLEU | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences (Afrikaans → English) | 64.43 | 38.48 | Excellent |
Measured 2026-08-04; screening score, not a publication result. Bands: Excellent ≥60, Good 45–60, Usable 30–45, Limited 15–30, Not recommended <15 (chrF++).
Available Variants
Deployment formats in this repository (subfolders):
| Variant | Description |
|---|---|
lora/ | WindyStandard — production baseline. Transformers format for GPU inference. |
lora-ct2-int8/ | WindyStandard · CPU INT8 — CTranslate2 INT8 quantization of WindyStandard for CPU inference. |
Quick usage
Transformers (PyTorch):
from transformers import MarianMTModel, MarianTokenizer
tokenizer = MarianTokenizer.from_pretrained("WindyTranslate/translate-af-en", subfolder="lora")
model = MarianMTModel.from_pretrained("WindyTranslate/translate-af-en", subfolder="lora")
CTranslate2 (fast CPU inference):
import ctranslate2
translator = ctranslate2.Translator("path/to/translate-af-en/lora-ct2-int8")
Apps
The Windy Word apps are built on this model family.
Provenance & License
Weights derived from Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-af-en (OPUS-MT, Helsinki-NLP, University of Helsinki), licensed Apache-2.0. Windy variants are released under the same licence.