What Diction Does When Transcription Fails

You're mid-sentence. Something goes wrong -- bad connection, phone locks, app gets suspended. The keyboard goes quiet. The transcription never comes back. Most voice keyboards treat that as an acceptable loss. You re-record, or you don't. Diction doesn't accept that. Audio preservation as a default When a transcription fails for any reason, Diction holds onto your audio. Not as a debug artifact -- as a first-class feature. Your recording is kept safe until it can be transcribed successfully. This is what taking resilience seriously looks like. The assumption is not "transcription will work". The assumption is "sometimes it won't, and the user's words still matter". One tap to recover When you open the keyboard after a failed transcription, an orange retry strip appears. Tap it once. Diction re-transcribes the saved audio and inserts the result exactly where your cursor is. No re-recording. No copying and pasting. No switching apps. If you want to review what failed, Settings shows a fu