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Transcription failed. Your recording is still there.

Dictaty keeps the recording in local History for seven days, so you can open it and transcribe it again on your Mac.

Dictaty writes the recording to its local session store while you speak. After setup, the first attempt and every retry use a transcription engine on the Mac.

Successful audio and recoverable audio follow different cleanup rules. Once the text has been delivered, successful audio can be removed when the next recording starts, when local audio storage reaches its limit, or once it is more than 24 hours old. Audio needed after a failed transcription stays available until recovery, deletion, or the seven-day limit.

From the microphone to automatic cleanup.

What Dictaty keeps depends on whether the text was delivered or the recording is still needed for recovery.

  1. During dictation
    Audio is written locally.

    The current recording is saved on your Mac while you speak.

  2. After success
    The text is delivered.

    Successful audio can be removed when the next recording starts, when local audio storage reaches its limit, or once it is more than 24 hours old.

  3. After failure
    The recording remains recoverable.

    Open local History and run transcription again on the Mac.

  4. After seven days
    History is deleted automatically.

    The History item and any remaining recording reach the same seven-day retention limit.

History
7 days
Tuesday at ten works for me. I’ll send the final agenda this afternoon.Inserted just now
Saved audio recordingReady to transcribe again
Recoverable

Retry from History.

Open Dictaty, find the saved recording in History, and choose Transcribe. Dictaty creates text from that recording and shows it in the same History item.

The retry stays on the Mac.

A retry uses the same local transcription path as a new dictation. It does not upload the recording to a cloud transcription service.

Internet may still be used separately for license checks and app updates. Those requests do not contain the recording or transcript.

You can delete it sooner.

History lets you remove one item or clear all items before automatic cleanup. Support does not require you to send a recording or transcript unless you deliberately choose to share it.

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