Surface B · The voice — listening

Let the waveform carry it

You like the listening visualisation — it stays. The question is whether the mic button needs to also throb. Right now two signals fire for one event. The refined version keeps the cool waveform and calms everything around it, so attention concentrates on your voice.

Now

Waveform + an energetic expanding ring on the mic. Lively, but loud — two things competing.

Where were we?

Pick up the Henderson thread.

Listening…

Refined (rec.)

Ring removed; mic settles to a calm oxblood. Chat behind gently recedes. The waveform — slightly finer — becomes the single point of life.

Where were we?

Pick up the Henderson thread.

Listening…

✓ Waveform stays — it's the character you like (still the real analyser bars)
✓ Ring removed — one signal, not two; the button just turns oxblood (active state earns colour)
✓ Recede & concentrate — the conversation behind dims a touch, so the act of speaking is the focus

Pick a direction (refined pre-selected). Two sub-questions: should the chat recede while listening (focus) or stay fully lit (context)? And do you prefer the waveform finer/quieter as shown, or keep it bold? Next: the speaking twin — how Mallory shows she's talking, in the same waveform language.