Ubuntu plans to add AI voice input to all text fields (opens in new tab)

Ever wished you could talk in to a text field rather than type? Ubuntu 26.10 hears you – quite literally. Canonical VP of Engineer Jon Seager, speaking at the Ubuntu Summit in May, said the distro aims to let you “press a button and talk into any field that you could previously type in […] by default on every Ubuntu machine”. Speech to text will be powered by a small language parsing model like Whisper, turning any text entry point on the desktop to offer optional speech input. This means you...