Audio attachment design

Are there plans to redesign audio attachments in the chat?

I made an example, if of course you like it:
https://deltachat.ru/audio_message

I also had some ideas and did some investigation into libraries that could help with that.

I think such a visual change should be a part of a bigger voice message overhaul. Some suggestions for the bigger overhaul:

  • adding voice message recording to desktop
  • wave form control/seek-slider like you proposed
  • option to change playback speed of voice messages (x1, x1.25, x1.5, x2)
  • play next audio message when current audio message finished playing (maybe with sound in-between like signal does it)
  • global audio player → continue playing even when leaving the chat and reading other chats and also when leaving the app?
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