August 17, 2026
Nova-3 Adds Afrikaans and Georgian, Plus Improved Models for Hungarian, Macedonian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Urdu
Section titled “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
Section titled “🆕 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
Section titled “Improved models”Batch and streaming models
Section titled “Batch and streaming models”- Russian (
ru) - Slovak (
sk) - Slovenian (
sl) - Urdu (
ur)
Streaming models
Section titled “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 page.
For self-hosted customers, please request the updated models for download from your Deepgram account representative.