[Epic] Voice Messages - Phase 2

[jonnyandrew]

After phase 2, voice messages are production ready with a polished UX/UI. Any tech debt and minor bugs that accumulate can be added here.

• Depends on [Epic] Voice Messages - Phase 1 #2057

User Stories

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1. [Story] Voice message analytics #2110
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2. [Story] Voice messages ‘hold to record’ tooltip vector-im/element-meta#2111
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3. [Task] Enable voice messages by default (once above are complete)
4. [Story] Voice messages do not play at the same time
5. [Story] Cache storage housekeeping #2175
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6. [Story] See waveform visualisation for voice messages #2112
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7. [Story] See recording audio visualisation for voice messages #2114
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8. [Story] Scrub the playback position of a voice message #2113
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9. [Design review] Improve voice message UXD #2166
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Stretch goals (out of scope)

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1. [Story] Switch from speaker to earpiece when holding device to ear

Open questions

Out of scope

• Edit a voice message
• Share voice messages to other apps
• Save as draft
• Encrypting audio files stored on the device
• Decryption progress indicator
• Waveform and scrubbing UI (stretch goal)
• Typing notifications
• Reply with a voice message
• Auto-play consecutive voice messages
• Interoperability with non-element clients
• Recording length limits or warnings (discussion)
• Record a message when text formatting options are shown

Sign-off

Android

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1. Design sign-off on completion
2. QA sign-off on completion
3. Product sign-off on completion

iOS

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1. Design sign-off on completion
2. QA sign-off on completion
3. Product sign-off on completion

References

• Product spec
• Original product spec

Technical lead: @jonnyandrew

myhours project: Element X