Nova-3 Adds Afrikaans and Georgian, Plus Improved Models for Hungarian, Macedonian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Urdu

We have added Afrikaans and Georgian as new Nova-3 languages and released improved Nova-3 monolingual models for several existing languages. These updates expand language coverage and enhance transcription quality for batch and streaming workloads.

🆕 New languages

  • Afrikaans (af, af-ZA) — available for batch and streaming.
  • Georgian (ka, ka-GE) — available for batch and streaming.

Access these languages by setting model="nova-3" and the relevant language code in your request.

Improved models

Batch and streaming models

  • Russian (ru)
  • Slovak (sk)
  • Slovenian (sl)
  • Urdu (ur)

Streaming models

  • Hungarian (hu)
  • Macedonian (mk)

You do not need to change your API requests to access the improvements to existing languages; the updates are live for all users.

For more details and to see the full list of supported languages, visit the Models & Languages Overview page.

For self-hosted customers, please request the updated models for download from your Deepgram account representative.