# September 19, 2023

## Early Access to Nova-2 Speech-to-Text Model

Deepgram is excited to announce early access to our next-gen speech-to-text model, Nova-2. As shared in our [Marketing Announcement](https://deepgram.com/learn/nova-2-speech-to-text-api), Nova-2:

- Outperforms all alternatives in terms of accuracy, speed, and cost ([starting at $0.0043/min](https://deepgram.com/pricing)).
- Is 18% more accurate than our previous Nova model and offers a 36% relative WER improvement over OpenAI Whisper (large).

Pay as You Go and Growth users may access this model immediately in the [API Playground](https://playground.deepgram.com/) or by requesting `model=nova-2-ea` in their API requests. Enterprise customers can reach out to their account representative or [Contact Us](https://deepgram.com/pricing) for access.

Nova-2 Early Access supports hosted and on-prem transcription of pre-recorded and streaming English audio.

Read more about Nova-2 in the [Deepgram Documentation](/guides/models-and-languages-model).

## Related pages

- [Amazon SageMaker](./amazon-sagemaker-index.md)
- [Aura](./aura-index.md)
- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Custom Vocabulary](./custom-vocabulary-index.md)
- [Deepgram's Docs](../index.md)
- [Deployment](./deployment-index.md)
- [Docker/Podman](./docker-podman-index.md)
- [Features](./features-index.md)
- [Flux TTS](./flux-tts-index.md)
- [Formatting](./formatting-index.md)

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