Canonical launches Myna voice dictation tech preview for Ubuntu

Canonical has released a technology preview of Myna, an offline AI speech-to-text tool for the Ubuntu desktop. It runs local ASR models from Nvidia, OpenAI and Alibaba, and supports Ubuntu 24.04, 26.04 and 26.10 on GNOME with Wayland.

• Myna runs fully offline using a local ASR model
• Three open-weight models: Parakeet, Whisper and Funasr
• Supports Ubuntu 24.04, 26.04 and 26.10 on GNOME Wayland
• Ships as myna, myna-config and model snaps