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Index-Translate

A Multilingual Translation Model Family
Text, Speech, Controlled Dubbing, and Long-Document Translation

Online Demo · Hugging Face · ModelScope · Technical Report

Index-Translate is a family of multilingual translation models built on Qwen3.5. The text models cover 150 languages and follow translation instructions such as terminology, formatting, and content-preservation requirements. The family extends this foundation to speech, syllable-controlled translation, and full-document translation.

• Index-Translate translates text, structured content, and community expressions.
• Index-Echo produces translated subtitles or speech conditioned on the source speaker's voice.
• Index-Homura adjusts translations toward a specified target syllable count.
• Index-NativeLong translates complete documents with context across passages.

The radar includes 35B-A3B (preview), 9B, and 2B, with fixed per-axis min–max ranges across all 14 models. Its seven axes are WMT, FLORES, instruction following, low-resource translation, subtitles, MEME, and books/fiction. Instruction following averages instTrans and IFMTBench IFscore. The normalized scale is not an accuracy percentage. The gray dashed line combines the best non-Index score on each axis and does not represent one model. Raw category scores · Figure notes · Individual benchmark results.

Models · Quick start · Examples · Evaluation · Benchmarks · Applications · TODO

Models

The links below provide 2B, 9B, and 35B-A3B (preview) text-model checkpoints. Evaluation results are included in the comparison tables.

Naming: Index-NativeLong is published under the model IDs IndexTeam/Index-Nailong-2B and IndexTeam/Index-Nailong-9B. Use those IDs in commands. Language support for the speech and long-document packages is listed separately from the text models' 150-language coverage.

Inference

Quick start

Start with the 2B text model on a CUDA GPU using a vLLM build with Qwen3.5 support. From a terminal:

git clone https://github.com/bilibili/Index-Translate.git
cd Index-Translate
pip install -U vllm
pip install -r inference/llm/requirements.txt
vllm serve IndexTeam/Index-Translate-2B --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000 --max-model-len 4096

From the same repository directory in another terminal:

python inference/llm/translate.py \
  "你好，世界。今天天气不错，我们去公园散步吧。" \
  --target en --model IndexTeam/Index-Translate-2B

An output recorded with the released 2B model is:

Hello, world. The weather is nice today. Let's go for a walk in the park.

See captured cases, text inference, and prompt examples. The 4,096-token setting above is a short-text example; the serving presets are listed in the table below.

For audio, use the dedicated S2TT subtitle guide or S2ST dubbing guide.

Default inference settings

This is the shared reference for the repository clients and the released Echo packages. Translate covers 2B / 9B / 35B-A3B (preview); the other families cover 2B / 9B. Decoding defaults are shared across sizes within each family.

Not set means the client inherits the backend/model configuration; — means the setting does not apply. Text-generation rows describe transcription/translation for Echo; speech generation has separate rows.

• Text clients: default to http://127.0.0.1:8000/v1 with API key EMPTY. Use --base-url / --api-key or OPENAI_BASE_URL / OPENAI_API_KEY; --model overrides INDEX_MODEL and the default checkpoint. Serve 35B-A3B manually and select it with --model IndexTeam/Index-Translate-35B-A3B-preview.
• Budgets: Homura's len(text) is the Python character count after trimming input. NativeLong's omitted max_tokens leaves the output cap to the server; context capacity and server limits still apply. Pass a positive --max-tokens for an explicit cap. Context includes the full prompt and generated output; override serving limits with --max-model-len.
• Echo S2ST: m is the aligned target-text token count. sampling=25 is a fixed package-code argument, not a CLI option. The public DubbingBridgeModel.dub wrapper exposes neither seed nor token budgets; use the lower-level extract / synth API documented in the model card. chunk=True is not implemented.
• Scope: these are usage defaults. The technical report's benchmark decoding and context settings are documented separately in Evaluation.

Examples

These examples are drawn from the official demo. Outputs below illustrate individual cases; full comparisons and task settings are available on the demo and in the report.

Translate text while preserving a hashtag

Task: translate this JSON into Korean, preserving its structure, stars, and the Chinese hashtag.

{"title": "⭐2月13日例行维护公告⭐", "content": "#热血航线大和登场#"}

Index-Translate-9B:

{"title": "⭐2월 13일 정기 점검 공지⭐", "content": "#热血航线大和登场#"}

The title is translated while the requested hashtag remains unchanged. Try text translation.

Keep the meaning of a community expression

Source: 狒瘾犯了就去打 — in this gaming context, “狒瘾” refers to the urge to play Final Fantasy XIV.

Set the translation's syllable budget

Source: 生活两天，是一种什么体验. Index-Homura-9B produces different wording for three requested lengths:

These three examples meet their targets; syllable control is approximate in general, and spoken duration also depends on delivery. Try Index-Homura.

Keep a character's name consistent across a document

In a roughly 32K-token fantasy document, “王妃” is a character's name. The following extracts compare native full-document translation with the same 9B model in a chunked workflow using neighboring context and an automatic glossary.

Positions are measured by source characters. The full-document output keeps the name at these locations; the demo also shows how an externally supplied glossary can repair the chunked result. Try Index-NativeLong.

Watch speech translation

The S2ST panels compare the deployed 2B system, a pipeline, and SeamlessM4T-v2. This demo comparison is separate from the six-direction matched study in the report; SeamlessM4T-v2 does not clone the source voice.

Click either preview to watch the video, or open Index-Echo. The website demonstration and the packaged inference interfaces have different language coverage; the model table lists the released interfaces.

Evaluation

The charts reproduce the updated demo comparison. *35B-A3B is the preview model. The instruction panels average instTrans and IFMTBench: Quality combines instTrans quality and IFMTBench XCOMET-XXL, while IFscore averages their instruction scores. Individual benchmark metrics remain separate in the tables below.

The following tables cover general text translation, low-resource translation, and low-resource instruction following. FLORES uses COMET-22; WMT26 uses a judge score. instTrans reports translation quality and instruction following separately. MEME measures translation quality for community and cultural expressions. Higher is better for every metric in the first table below; scales differ across columns.

Low-resource translation and instruction following

FLORES_minor_pair evaluates general translation in low-resource languages; instTrans_minor reports translation quality and instruction following separately. Off-target is the percentage of outputs in a language other than the target language; lower is better. Higher is better for the other metrics. Bold marks the best value in each column of this table.

Among the three Index-Translate models, 35B-A3B (preview) has the highest FLORES_minor_pair COMET-22 and XCOMET-XXL scores (0.8168 / 0.7164), with a 2.4% off-target rate. On instTrans_minor, Index-Translate-9B achieves the highest IFscore (0.7725) and lowest off-target rate (3.47%) among all compared models; its quality score is 0.5222.

Full tables retain all comparison models, low-resource metrics, WMT24++, IFMTBench, domain averages, general capabilities, speech, SandGlass, and long-document results. Detailed settings and analysis are in the technical report.

Index-Homura and Index-NativeLong

SandGlass overall score and length adherence from the demo; the overall score differs from the separate translation-quality metric in the detailed tables.

GuoFeng and BWB Track A3 at 64K Chinese-side tokens.

For the specialized models, Index-Homura-9B reaches 81.92% within 10% of the target syllable count on SandGlass. Index-NativeLong-9B scores 0.7891 / 0.7683 / 0.8848 on GuoFeng / BWB / Books. The full tables include translation-quality tradeoffs and evaluation notes.

Benchmarks

Release status: planned benchmark releases are listed under TODO. Download links will be added when available. The technical report describes the evaluation now; IFMTBench preprocessing is documented separately.

Applications

• Browser extension: translate web pages through a locally deployed model using Chrome, Edge, or Firefox.
• Video dubbing pipeline: extract audio, separate vocals, segment speech, translate and dub, then align the result to the original video.

News

• 2026-09-30: released Index-Translate, with 2B / 9B / 35B-A3B (preview) text-model weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope, the technical report, and the online demo.

TODO

• Release the official version of Index-Translate-35B-A3B.
• Open-source instTrans, SandGlass-V2, nailong-bench, and meme-bench.
• Add support for more languages to Index-Echo.
• Release larger models.

Citation

@techreport{indextranslate2026,
  author={Tianjiao Li and Mengran Yu and Chenyu Shi and Lusheng Zhang and
          Qisi Chen and Yanshan Zhou and Ji Qi and Jingying Liu and
          Yuang Feng and Ziang Cui and Tianxing Yan},
  title={Index-Translate: A Multilingual Translation Model Family --- Text, Speech, Controlled Dubbing, and Long-Document Translation},
  institution={Index LLM Team},
  year={2026},
  month={September}
}

License and feedback

Apache-2.0. Questions and feedback are welcome through GitHub Issues.