Expressive Voice 2.0

Expressive Voice 2.0

The app is now Expressive Voice (it still shows as Recorder under the launcher icon). It installs as an update over the earlier betas.

New

• Recording quality setting — choose Low (64 kbps), Standard (128 kbps, default), High (192 kbps) or Maximum (256 kbps). If the phone can't use a choice, it records at Standard instead of failing.
• Recordings folder setting — pick where recordings are saved, with an option to move existing recordings.
• One-tap recording — the red Record button on the home screen starts recording immediately; no second page and no second tap. Stopping brings you back to the list.
• New Record button — pill-shaped with a press-and-hold animation.
• Haptic feedback — a crisp physical-button click on Record, Stop, Play/Pause, −5s and +10s.
• Scrub timestamp — while dragging the progress bar, the left time shows exactly where you are in the recording.

Design

• Settings now use lighter, rounded, grouped containers.

Faster

• Smoother, faster recordings list and scrolling.
• Opening a recording is quicker: waveforms are saved after the first time, prepared in the background for new and recent recordings, and playback is ready as soon as the screen opens.
• Waveform decoding uses far less memory on long recordings.

Fixed

• Waveform no longer shows flat bars when reopening a recording.

Under the hood

• Package name stays com.captechomar.recorder, signed with the same key, so it updates in place.