Want to try Ubuntu's AI dictation feature? Here's how
(https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/myna-406x232.webp) Ubuntu's new AI-powered dictation tool Myna isn't officially ready, but you can give it an early test. Canonical has added the Myna orchestrator snap and a pair of speech-recognition AI models to the Snap Store recently, and made its new desktop Myna Settings tool available to test from a PPA. Ubuntu 26.10 also comes with another component preinstalled, as the gnome-shell-ubuntu-extensions package has a GNOME Shell extension that triggers an on-screen HUD when the Myna local AI speech-to-text tech is listening or transcribing. While a formal call for testing hasn't been made, all the pieces needed to test Myna are [...]
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Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-myna-ai-install Sep 24, 2026, 06:34 AM