Fact · Languages and accents
SeamlessM4T's language table marks Xhosa as zero-shot for speech translation into English.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“xho Xhosa Atlantic-Congo Benue-Congo Latn zero-shot Sp”
SeamlessM4T: Massively Multilingual and Multimodal Machine Translation (full text), Seamless Communication, Meta AI (arXiv), 2023, Table 5, SeamlessM4T languages.
Open the original (DOI 10.48550/arXiv.2308.11596)- What it measures
- The table lists each language's code, family, script, resource level and whether speech or text can be the source or target.
- What it does not show
- The table gives no translation score for Xhosa. Zero-shot means no primary training data for speech translation into English, so the output quality is unmeasured in this table.