Speech To Text
Mar 31, 2025

Nova-3 Multilingual goes GA

Deepgram is proud to announce the general availability of Nova-3 Multilingual, the first model of its kind able to codeswitch in real-time across 10 different languages. This revolutionary capability unlocks a host of new possibilities for global operations by processing multilingual conversations instantly with a single model—an industry-first breakthrough that changes the game for speech recognition.

Multilingual Support

  • Real-time multilingual speech recognition with a truly unified speech recognition system

  • Supports code-switching between 10 languages:

    • English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, and Dutch

  • Seamlessly handles natural language transitions without relying on explicit routing or language-specific mechanisms

  • Maintains high transcription accuracy across languages while adapting to natural language transitions

  • Developed through a multi-stage training process combining synthetic code-switched data at massive scale with carefully curated real-world datasets

Use Cases

Nova-3 Multilingual represents a significant breakthrough for applications in:

  • Global customer support

  • Emergency response (e.g., 911 calls)

  • Multilingual meetings

  • Retail interactions

  • Healthcare settings

In high-stakes scenarios like emergency response, Nova-3 can fluidly process interactions where callers switch between languages (e.g., Spanish and English) in real time, ensuring dispatchers receive accurate, immediate transcriptions without missing critical details.

Availability

  • Now available through our API

  • Use model=nova-3&language=multi in your API calls

  • Supports both pre-recorded and real-time streaming transcription

  • Available for hosted and self-hosted use

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

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