# How to test Ubuntu's Myna local AI dictation tool

DevFeed: [How to test Ubuntu's Myna local AI dictation tool](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/want-to-try-ubuntu-s-ai-dictation-feature-here-s-how-58978.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-myna-ai-install>)

Author: Joey Sneddon

Published: 2026-09-24T03:34:13Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [OMG! Ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/omg-ubuntu.md>)

Topics: [Ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ubuntu.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [voice ai](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/voice-ai.md>), [asr](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/asr.md>), [Local AI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/local-ai.md>), [AI Models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-models.md>), [snap](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/snap.md>), [Extension](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/extension.md>), [Whisper](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/whisper.md>), [Shell](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shell.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-ml](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-ml.md>), [ai-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-models.md>), [gnome](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gnome.md>), [gnome-shell](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gnome-shell.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [local-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/local-ai.md>), [myna](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/myna.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [snap](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/snap.md>), [speech-to-text](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/speech-to-text.md>), [ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ubuntu.md>), [ubuntu-26-10](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ubuntu-26-10.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial explains how to test Myna, Ubuntu's early AI-powered dictation tool, on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS or 26.10. It covers installing the settings app, snap, speech-to-text models, and the optional GNOME Shell extension, while noting that the feature is experimental and may not work perfectly.

## Source excerpt

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 [...] You're reading Want to try Ubuntu's AI dictation feature? Here's how, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.