# Improved Nova-3 Models for Catalan and Japanese

Deepgram released [improved Nova-3 monolingual models for Catalan and Japanese](<https://developers.deepgram.com/changelog/2026/11/12#improved-nova-3-models-for-catalan-and-japanese>), with better transcription quality for both batch and streaming workloads.

You don't need to change your API requests. The updates apply to the existing Catalan (ca) and Japanese (ja) Nova-3 models, and they're live for all users.

Self-hosted customers have to ask their Deepgram account representative for the updated models to download.

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