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## Nova-3 Improved Models for Flemish, German (Switzerland), Lithuanian, and Portuguese

We have released improved Nova-3 monolingual models for four existing languages. These updates enhance transcription quality for batch and streaming workloads.

### Improved models

#### Batch and streaming models

- German (Switzerland) (`de-CH`)
- Portuguese (`pt`, `pt-BR`, `pt-PT`)
- Lithuanian (`lt`)

#### Streaming models

- Flemish (`nl-BE`)

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.