Nova-3 Adds Afrikaans and Georgian, Plus Improved Models for Hungarian, Macedonian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Urdu
By Steven Van ·
We have added Afrikaans and Georgian as new Nova-3 languages and released improved Nova-3 monolingual models for several existing languages.
Deepgram announced Nova-3 Adds Afrikaans and Georgian, Plus Improved Models for Hungarian, Macedonian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Urdu on August 17, 2026.
What changed
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 page. For self-hosted customers, please request the updated models for download from your Deepgram account representative.