Hands-on with Ubuntu’s AI speech-to-text dictation feature

AI-powered voice dictation is coming to Ubuntu in Myna, a speech-to-text feature that lets you talk into any valid text field. It’s still a work in progress, but I grabbed an early build to see how it’s shaping up. With Ubuntu 26.10 now entering its freeze, the user-facing pieces of myna are falling in to place. This week, a new GNOME Shell extension was added to default installs to provide an on-screen indicator when myna is listening and recording. To be clear: Myna is not a GNOME Shell extension. It’s an orchestrator that manages loading the AI model, listening for […] You're reading Hands-on with Ubuntu’s AI speech-to-text dictation feature, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.