The first machine translation model for Ateso, spoken by about 3 million
Iteso people in Uganda and Kenya. It was trained on biblical text, so it
stumbles on everyday speech — that is what we need you for.
Translate something, then tell us how wrong it was.
English → Ateso is not working yet.
The model was only ever trained to translate Ateso into English,
so when it is asked for Ateso it produces fluent Luganda
instead — a different language entirely. We would rather show you
nothing than show you that. If you speak Ateso, write the translation
yourself below; those pairs are exactly what is needed to train this
direction properly.
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There is no way to measure Ateso translation yet.
Every published score, ours included, is measured on Bible text the models
already trained on — and the one public test set turns out to be 85%
mis-aligned. Below are real sentences from Ateso news writing. Translate a
few into English and you are building the first honest benchmark for this
language.
— of
— sentences translated so far
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Not sure? Skip it. A wrong translation is worse than a
missing one — this becomes the yardstick everyone measures against.