WindyTranslate/translate-af-fi

WindyWord.ai Translation — Afrikaans → Finnish

Part of the Windstorm Labs open model catalogue. Scores, licence and attribution for every model: https://windytranslate.com/models/translate-af-fi

Translates Afrikaans → Finnish.

Evaluation

Benchmark	chrF++	BLEU	Band
FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences (Afrikaans → Finnish)	41.05	11.75	Usable

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.
herm0/	WindyEnhanced — further fine-tuned on the OPUS-100, Tatoeba and WikiMatrix parallel corpora.
herm0-ct2-int8/	WindyEnhanced · CPU INT8 — CTranslate2 INT8 quantization of WindyEnhanced.

Quick usage

Transformers (PyTorch):

from transformers import MarianMTModel, MarianTokenizer
tokenizer = MarianTokenizer.from_pretrained("WindyTranslate/translate-af-fi", subfolder="lora")
model = MarianMTModel.from_pretrained("WindyTranslate/translate-af-fi", subfolder="lora")

CTranslate2 (fast CPU inference):

import ctranslate2
translator = ctranslate2.Translator("path/to/translate-af-fi/lora-ct2-int8")

Apps

The Windy Word apps are built on this model family.

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Provenance & License

Weights derived from Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-af-fi (OPUS-MT, Helsinki-NLP, University of Helsinki), licensed Apache-2.0. Windy variants are released under the same licence.

Licence text: LICENSE. Attribution: NOTICE.md.