# May 14, 2024

## Nova-2 Expanded to 36 Languages

We're excited to announce that **we now support 36 languages** in our next-gen speech-to-text model, Nova-2.

This includes most languages supported by previous models, as well as many new languages - all now with even better performance!

See our [supported languages](/guides/models-and-languages-models-languages-overview) for the up-to-date full list of supported languages, or explore our [language feature documentation](/guides/models-and-languages-language) for information on how to call each available language model.

**Nova-2 Now Supports:**

- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified)
- Chinese (Mandarin, Traditional)
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Flemish
- French
- German
- German (Switzerland)
- Greek
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malay
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Slovak
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese

For On-Premises customers, please reach out to your Deepgram contact if you'd like to update your models.

## 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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