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## Nova-3 Adds Assamese, Mongolian, and Pashto, Plus Improved Models for Czech, Danish, Swedish, Tagalog, and Turkish

We have added Assamese, Mongolian, and Pashto 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

- Assamese (`as`, `as-IN`) — available for batch and streaming.
- Mongolian (`mn`) — available for batch and streaming.
- Pashto (`ps`, `ps-AF`) — 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
- Czech (`cs`, `cs-CZ`)
- Danish (`da`, `da-DK`)
- Tagalog (`tl`)

#### Batch models
- Turkish (`tr`, `tr-TR`)

#### Streaming models
- Swedish (`sv`, `sv-SE`)

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](https://developers.deepgram.com/docs/models-languages-overview#nova-3) page.

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