Quick note: later versions of Android do not support voice recording via a background app. Which sounds great and all, but whose phone is it? (As if we didn’t already know.) So the same phone will no longer display the Windows screen and send my voice to it via the internet. So my workaround is to have two phones. (One of which is actually quite old, but never mind.)

The first phone, the one with the actual Internet connection, is running the RDP client and creating a hotspot. The second phone connects to the hotspot, then also to the VPN I host at home, and runs WO Mic in the foreground. Possibly with a headset plugged into it, but I’ve discovered that phone microphones are actually pretty good for dictation. And it’s way easier to carry two phones in a pocket than to deal with transporting/using a headset microphone.

So far this isn’t working great for fiction. But that’s not a technical issue. It’s a problem in my brain. For other stuff, it’s pretty easy…once it’s all set up.