Setting Up Remote Microphone Dictation for the Pi Agent on a VPS
Pi’s dictation shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+Z, via the pi-transcribe extension) records audio on the machine where pi runs. If pi runs on a headless server, there is no microphone — recording starts, but captures only silence. SSH can’t help: it forwards keystrokes, never audio. The fix: tunnel your laptop’s microphone to the server as a virtual audio device. Both machines on a Tailscale network make the connection private by default1 . ...