Honest question- are the down votes just because it uses gen-ai, or because canonical has done something fucky here?

If gen-ai makes transcription better to my mind thats one of very few meaningful usecases and I would love to have voice transcription on my laptop, but I dunno if theres some additional shit people take issue with here that I'm just not in-the-loop about. Which always feels like a bit of a risk with canonical these days

Snap and AI in one post. Is this ragebait?

Not just no but Fuck No.

This is standard on all phones and macs. Glad that speech to text is now available on Linux. Wish they didn't call it AI...

Nope, ubuntu need to change their name.

How to avoid using the ai built in Ubuntu ? Just switch to a better distro.

Boy, who ever posted this to lemmy does not understand the audience.

Unfortunately if your post mentions usage of AI Lemmings act like rabid reactionaries and become as bad as the most enthusiastic AI bros. Sorry your post is overshadowed by this issue.

This is just speech-to-text, right? If so, advertising it as "AI", while a historically popular term for it, is going to kill any interest in it before anyone has a chance to try it. I don't use Ubuntu, nor do I have any interest in it, but STT tools are powerful accessibility tools.

no, i don't

Also try https://voxtype.io/