---
license: cc-by-4.0
tags:
- translation
- marian
- windyword
- english
- german
language:
- en
- de
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: translation
base_model: Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-de
---

# WindyWord.ai Translation — English → German

> Part of the Windstorm Labs open model catalogue. Scores, licence and attribution for every model: https://windytranslate.com/models/translate-en-de
>
> Canonical copy: https://huggingface.co/WindyTranslate/translate-en-de

**Translates English → German.**

## Quality

No quality score is published in this repository. Current screening scores, where measured, are on the catalogue page linked above.

## Available Variants

Deployment formats in this repository (subfolders):

| Variant | Description |
|---|---|
| `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):**
```python
from transformers import MarianMTModel, MarianTokenizer
tokenizer = MarianTokenizer.from_pretrained("WindyWord/translate-en-de", subfolder="herm0")
model = MarianMTModel.from_pretrained("WindyWord/translate-en-de", subfolder="herm0")
```

**CTranslate2 (fast CPU inference):**
```python
import ctranslate2
translator = ctranslate2.Translator("path/to/translate-en-de/herm0-ct2-int8")
```

## Apps

The [Windy Word](https://windyword.ai) apps are built on this model family.

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## Provenance & License

Weights derived from [Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-de](https://huggingface.co/Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-de) (OPUS-MT, Helsinki-NLP, University of Helsinki), licensed CC-BY-4.0. Windy variants are released under the same licence.

Licence text: [`LICENSE`](LICENSE). Attribution: [`NOTICE.md`](NOTICE.md).