{"slug": "ubuntu-announce-tech-preview-of-ai-voice-dictation-feature", "title": "Ubuntu announce tech preview of AI voice dictation feature", "summary": "Canonical released Myna, an AI-powered speech-to-text tool for Ubuntu desktop, as a technology preview that uses a local, offline automatic speech recognition model to let users dictate into any text field. Myna supports Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 26.04 LTS and 26.10, but only on the default GNOME desktop with Wayland, and Canonical's Jean Baptiste Lallement said it is \"still early days\" for the feature though it is now \"ready for the community to try\". The tool is already multi-lingual.", "body_md": "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. Canonical’s Jean Baptiste Lallement says it is “still early days” for the feature, but that it is now “ready for the community to try”. It’s already multi-lingual, […]\n\nYou're reading [Ubuntu announce tech preview of AI voice dictation feature](https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu-release-myna-tech-preview), a blog post from [OMG! Ubuntu](https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk). Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ubuntu-announce-tech-preview-of-ai-voice-dictation-feature", "canonical_source": "https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu-release-myna-tech-preview", "published_at": "2026-10-12 17:27:22+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-12 17:50:29.257750+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "natural-language-processing", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Canonical", "Myna", "Ubuntu", "Ubuntu 24.04 LTS", "Ubuntu 26.04 LTS", "Ubuntu 26.10", "GNOME", "Jean Baptiste Lallement"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ubuntu-announce-tech-preview-of-ai-voice-dictation-feature", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ubuntu-announce-tech-preview-of-ai-voice-dictation-feature.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ubuntu-announce-tech-preview-of-ai-voice-dictation-feature.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ubuntu-announce-tech-preview-of-ai-voice-dictation-feature.jsonld"}}