# August 17, 2026

## Nova-3 Adds Afrikaans and Georgian, Plus Improved Models for Hungarian, Macedonian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Urdu

We have added Afrikaans and Georgian as new Nova-3 languages and released improved Nova-3 monolingual models for several existing languages. These updates expand language coverage and enhance transcription quality for batch and streaming workloads.

### 🆕 New languages

- Afrikaans (`af`, `af-ZA`) — available for batch and streaming.
- Georgian (`ka`, `ka-GE`) — available for batch and streaming.

Access these languages by setting `model="nova-3"` and the relevant language code in your request.

### Improved models

#### Batch and streaming models

- Russian (`ru`)
- Slovak (`sk`)
- Slovenian (`sl`)
- Urdu (`ur`)

#### Streaming models

- Hungarian (`hu`)
- Macedonian (`mk`)

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](/guides/models-and-languages-models-languages-overview#nova-3) page.

For self-hosted customers, please request the updated models for download from your Deepgram account representative.

## 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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