Ubuntu is adding AI features this year, and founder Mark Shuttleworth hopes the distro will become the OS for the ‘agentic’ era. But big ambitions start with small seeds, and the first to be planted is a speech-to-text tool called Myna. Name: Myna. Age: Minus 4 months (it’ll debut in Ubuntu 26.10, out in October). Appearance: A keyboard shortcut you press to avoid using your keyboard for typing. What’s this about? A “lightweight speech-to-text application” powered by AI. You press a hotkey, chat at your computer and, like magic, your words type on screen. Canonical’s VP of Engineering Jon Seager says any text field […]
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