Intro
From the start of XSpeak, I wanted it to provide the best possible feel for the user: simple, fast, and responsive. Since it's a recording app, one of its main components is the button the user presses to record a conversation.
Actually, it's a control we're used to in many apps. The simplest example is the standard Voice Memos app on iPhone.
The button looks simple and does two things: starts recording and stops recording. However, behind the scenes, it takes many steps to start the whole pipeline, which is far from simple. In this article, I'm going to cover the technical and usability aspects of a recording button and will try to explain why it's important to make it work perfectly and why it's not as simple as it might look.
XSpeak is a fully private app that takes meeting notes live during conversation and helps you in real-time using on-device AI by providing suggestions, relevant context, facts and more as you speak.
