Ubuntu’s announce tech preview of its voice dictation feature

Canonical has announced that Myna, its new AI-powered speech-to-text tool for Ubuntu desktop, is now available as a technology preview. Myna uses a local, offline automatic speech recognition (ASR) AI model to let you dictate into any text field on the Ubuntu desktop, be it a word processor, web browser or even the terminal. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 26.04 LTS and 26.10 are supported, though only when using the default GNOME desktop with Wayland. It’s composed of the main Myna orchestrator snap (myna), a GUI setup tool (myna-config) and an AI model installed as a snap. You assign a keyboard shortcut […]
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