Crash-safe recording
Speechy saves your voice to disk while you dictate. If Speechy or your Mac quits before your words go in, the next time Speechy opens it turns that recording into text, copies it to your clipboard and adds it to History. You'll see Recovered last dictation on the pill.
How to use Crash-safe recording
Dictate
Your voice is saved to disk as you talk.
Something quits
Speechy crashes, or your Mac restarts.
Open Speechy
It turns the recording into text for you.
Paste it
It's on your clipboard and in History.
What goes wrong, what you get
A long dictation
What happens
“Your Mac runs out of battery mid-sentence”
You get
On next launch your words are on the clipboard and in History
Saving fails
What happens
“History can't be written”
You get
The recording is kept for recovery and the pill offers your words to copy
Questions
No. It's always on. Open Speechy again and the words come back.
The recording is kept and Speechy tries again next time it opens.
Only in History, like any dictation, when Keep new history is on.