# May 21, 2025

## Nova-3 Medical Streaming Significant Upgrade

We've just released a significant upgrade to **Nova-3 Medical Streaming**, bringing substantial improvements in accuracy for real-time medical transcription use cases. This update focuses specifically on our **streaming model**, delivering better performance across key transcription metrics.

### Performance Improvements

- \*\*11% relative reduction in Overall WER \*\*compared to Nova-3 general streaming model
- \*\*30% relative reduction in Overall WER \*\*compared to Nova-2 Medical streaming model
- \*\*2.7x improvement in Keyword Recall Rate (KRR) \*\*compared to Nova-3 general streaming model
- Maintains industry-leading inference speed with ultra-low latency for real-time healthcare applications

### Availability

The updated Nova-3 Medical streaming model is now available through our API. To access:

- Use `model=nova-3-medical` in your streaming API calls
- Available for hosted use
- Self-hosted deployments will be available in subsequent releases
- English only

For details on the original Nova-3 Medical release (including batch capabilities), check out the original changelog: [Introducing Nova-3 Medical.](https://deepgram.com/changelog/introducing-nova-3-medical) For detailed information about Nova-3 Medical, please refer to our [Developer Documentation](/guides/models-and-languages-models-languages-overview#nova-3).

## 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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