Mano-MT-Khmer · Mano មនោ Khmer ↔ English translation

Work in progress: no model weights here yet. This repo will hold the first model when it is trained and tested.

Mano ("mind") will translate between Khmer and English, small enough to run offline on a phone or an ordinary CPU. It belongs to the same family as Sota (ASR, listens), Chakkhu (OCR, reads), Tossana (captioning, sees), Akkhara (keyboard, types) and VoxPocket (TTS, speaks).

Planned design (≈29M parameters, estimate)

• Trained from scratch on Khmer–English sentence pairs (open licenses only)
• Tokens: the same 3,402 Khmer cluster tokens as Chakkhu and Sota, plus English subwords
• Both directions in one model
• Export: int8 ONNX

Status

Step	Result
Parallel text (Khmer–English)	collecting
First model	soon

License

To be decided with the first release.

Citation

@misc{ing2026mano,
  author    = {Ing, Muyleang},
  title     = {Mano: Khmer ↔ English translation},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/muyleanging/Mano-MT-Khmer}
}