Voice Recorder Dialog Block for React

So you can see it without a click, and so a poster or a gallery card never ages. On load the dialog is a copy drawn in place over the list: a native dialog element that isn't modal, so nothing is trapped, hidden or focused. In it the clock stands at 0:00 until you press the record button, and then it really runs. The New memo button opens the real Dialog, modal, with its focus trap, Escape and focus return, and the copy stays closed until a reload. Both show the same RecorderFields component and share the block's state. In your app keep the Dialog and drop the copy: the "in-place" state, the scrim and the dialog element inside the frame.

No. The microphone is never opened and no permission is asked; the dialog says so under its title. The waveform comes from a typed list of 48 levels, so every take looks the same, and a shorter take shows the first part of it. Nothing plays, and a line under the name field says the take is a picture of a sound. In your app open the microphone only when the person presses record, build the waveform from the recorded levels, and play the trimmed range from the same two numbers.

The catalog Timer counts one second at a time, from 0:00 up to 0:12, and stops itself at 12. The take's length is the last second it reached when you press Stop, and a take shorter than a second is refused in words. The seconds are not announced as they pass: the polite line says when recording starts, when the take is ready and what was saved. The waveform's fill moves in one-second steps by a clip, so it shows the same under reduced motion.

In review the slider has two thumbs, start and end, in whole seconds, and they stay a second apart. The part kept is drawn solid on the waveform and the rest is faint, and the text above it says how much is kept, such as "Keep 0:09 of 0:12". Each thumb is read as "Start at 0:02" or "End at 0:11". The memo is saved with the length that was kept, and the list shows that length.

It asks in the same row, "Discard this take?", with Keep it and Yes, discard, and moves focus to Keep it, so a stray press loses nothing. Yes, discard clears the take and returns to the record button with focus on it. Cancel, Close and Escape also let the take go. There is no second dialog on top.

Yes. The real dialog is named New voice memo, focus starts inside it and stays inside until it closes, and Escape and the close button return focus to New memo. The record button is one button that says Start recording or Stop recording, the thumbs move with the arrow keys, Home and End, and Save memo stays quiet until there is a take and says what is missing when pressed. The trigger is passed to DialogTrigger through render, and the dialog is controlled with open and onOpenChange.