Canonical's New AI Tool Wants You to Talk to Ubuntu Instead of Type
2026-06-21 00:37 UTC
Replies (18)
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@bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 2026-06-21 01:26
Erm, no.
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@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2026-06-21 01:41
Offline-only speech-to-text, integrated with the desktop for push-to-talk voice typing? That’s the kind of AI that I’d like to see. Actually add features that can help people without harming their rights. I’m still moving new machines to Debian but this is nice.
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@aim_at_me@lemmy.nz 2026-06-21 04:35
Bit of a click baity title lol. Of theres one good use of AI, its probably accessibility.
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@Fizz@lemmy.nz 2026-06-21 05:27
My grandma used to hate tech until she learned to use the voice assistance on her mobile phone. It unlocked the phone for her because she doesnt have the dexterity to type. I hope one day this tool could get to that same point.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-06-21 07:15
The framework split things into two groups, implicit AI that quietly improves what you already use and explicit AI that are features you’d actually summon on purpose. The very first paragraph already upsets me. Have in mind, I would criticize this on every other operating system too. I believe no one should use Ai tools that act autonomously in the background, to improve or change what you already use. It should always be a “summon on purpose”.
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@Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 2026-06-21 08:30
Out of curiosity would it be accurate to call this sort of technology generative ai, or just machine learning? Or it depends on the implementation? I feel like most of the anger around ai is because gen ai has a bunch of harmful baggage, and I’m curious if this is an example of gen ai having a productive use case, or an example of ai being more useful outside of gen ai specifically
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@Kristof12@lemmy.ml 2026-06-21 10:32
More AI stuff as usual, waiting to see demonstration how this will work
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@chgxvjh@hexbear.net 2026-06-21 10:45
maybe it will lead to better accessibility tooling. This is obviously rather silly as a default mode of operations, especially if you imagine people in a crowded office all yelling at their computers.
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@Somecall_metim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-21 09:57
Canonical can take its AI and walk into the sea
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@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-21 05:52
Being real, this is why I fucking hate the bullshit, corporate greed hype of LLMs and generative software. All the “bubble” shit? It tars all versions of the technology with the same brush. This? This is exactly what it should be used for. And, ffs, earlier speech to text was really the same fucking thing in essence. Software that took input in the form of voice, compared it to a set of data, and made a best guess at what you meant. Yeah, the details are different, but it’s the same concept. This? This is fucking awesome. Locally run, and doing a job that’s vital in accessibility, with the side benefit of being useful to others. Assuming canonical is being honest anyway. But this kind of thing should be the way things are done.
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@chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2026-06-21 16:09
Thanks Canonical…I’ll just throw it in the pile with all the other “wonderful” things you’ve made. It can go on the shelf next to Mir.
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@belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 2026-06-21 20:52
God fuck them. They are hunting for hype and not making linux better for the masses
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@ranzispa@mander.xyz 2026-06-21 22:15
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHepKd38pr0 One more step towards the discovery of what androids dream about.
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@Draegur@lemmy.zip 2026-06-22 00:17
Well they can listen to my voice when I say this: no thanks
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@AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2026-06-22 00:25
Based on what I read/saw and got out of it, I am real disappointed it looks like it’s gonna be using genAI instead of another form of AI we’ve been using for transcription. Otherwise, sounds like trying to be a modern genAI version of that speech to text software I’d see ads for on TV. Possibly good for accessibility, but I’ll wait and see after it comes out. At least they claim the whole thing to be done offline after model installation and it’s allegedly sandboxed with the audio data being stored in a memory buffer that allegedly will be erased after the session. So I’ll have to wait and see how this all plays out before making more judgments on it.
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@NutWrench@lemmy.ml 2026-06-22 12:23
I think Ubuntu is the Windows 11 of Linux distros.
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@Tattorack@lemmy.world 2026-06-22 12:40
Well fuck you too Canonical.
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@utopiah@lemmy.ml 2026-06-22 13:20
I’ll just leave this here… debian.org