May 21, 2025

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.

• **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

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. For detailed information about Nova-3 Medical, please refer to our Developer Documentation.