diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4332bb5..50c4023 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ dependencies = [
     "torchvision>=0.15.2",
     "unbabel-comet==2.2.3",
     "librosa>=0.10.2.post1",
+    "sentencepiece",
+    "transformers"
 ]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
diff --git a/src/m4st/ollama/client.py b/src/m4st/ollama/client.py
index d1c326a..b789236 100644
--- a/src/m4st/ollama/client.py
+++ b/src/m4st/ollama/client.py
@@ -2,14 +2,12 @@
 
 import requests  # type: ignore[import-untyped]
 
-model = "llama3.2"
 
-
-def generate(prompt, context):
+def generate(prompt, context, model_name="llama3.2"):
     r = requests.post(
         "http://localhost:11434/api/generate",
         json={
-            "model": model,
+            "model": model_name,
             "prompt": prompt,
             "context": context,
         },
diff --git a/src/m4st/translate/__init__.py b/src/m4st/translate/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/src/m4st/translate/model.py b/src/m4st/translate/model.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..988956a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/m4st/translate/model.py
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
+
+from transformers import T5ForConditionalGeneration, T5Tokenizer
+
+from m4st.ollama.client import generate
+
+language_iso_to_name = {
+    "eng": "English",
+    "deu": "German",
+    "fra": "French",
+    "jpn": "Japanese",
+    "spa": "Spanish",
+    "rou": "Romanian",
+    "zho": "Chinese",
+}
+
+
+class TranslationModel(ABC):
+    @abstractmethod
+    def __call__(self, text: str, source_lang_iso: str, target_lang_iso: str):
+        pass
+
+
+class T5TranslateModel(TranslationModel):
+    def __init__(self, model_tag: str = "google-t5/t5-small"):
+        self.model = T5ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(model_tag)
+        self.tokenizer = T5Tokenizer.from_pretrained(model_tag)
+
+        self.supported_languages = ["eng", "deu", "fra"]
+
+    def __call__(self, text: str, source_lang_iso: str, target_lang_iso: str):
+        assert target_lang_iso in self.supported_languages, f"This model \
+only supports {self.supported_languages}, but got target {target_lang_iso}."
+        assert source_lang_iso in self.supported_languages, f"This model \
+only supports {self.supported_languages}, but got source {source_lang_iso}."
+
+        source_lang_name, target_lang_name = (
+            language_iso_to_name[source_lang_iso],
+            language_iso_to_name[target_lang_iso],
+        )
+        model_input_text = f"translate {source_lang_name} to {target_lang_name}: {text}"
+        model_input_tokens = self.tokenizer(
+            model_input_text, return_tensors="pt"
+        ).input_ids
+        model_output_tokens = self.model.generate(model_input_tokens)
+
+        return self.tokenizer.decode(model_output_tokens[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
+
+
+class OllamaTranslateModel(TranslationModel):
+    def __init__(self, model_tag: str = "llama3.2"):
+        self.model_tag = model_tag
+
+    def __call__(self, text: str, source_lang_iso: str, target_lang_iso: str):
+        source_lang_name, target_lang_name = (
+            language_iso_to_name[source_lang_iso],
+            language_iso_to_name[target_lang_iso],
+        )
+        prompt = f"""
+            Please translate the following sentence from {source_lang_name}\
+ to {target_lang_name}, and return only the translated sentence as your\
+ response: {text}
+        """
+
+        return generate(prompt, [], model_name=self.model_tag)
diff --git a/tests/test_translate.py b/tests/test_translate.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..88d209b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_translate.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+from m4st.translate.model import T5TranslateModel
+
+eng_text = "Hi, my name is Bob."
+
+
+def test_t5():
+    t5 = T5TranslateModel()
+    translated_text_t5 = t5(eng_text, source_lang_iso="eng", target_lang_iso="fra")
+    print(translated_text_t5)
+
+
+# NOTE: Ollama server must be running for this test to work, skipping it for now.
+# def test_llama32():
+#    llama32translate = OllamaTranslateModel()
+#    translated_text_llama32 = llama32translate(
+#        eng_text, source_lang_iso="eng", target_lang_iso="fra"
+#    )
+#    print(translated_text_llama32)