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Stacked on #6848. Merge after it.

Goal

Refs AND-1692
A voice visualization as a single line, plus what the glow will share with it.

Implementation

  • AIVoiceWave(state, modifier, colors, expressivity, audioLevel) (public): a string, flat at its ends, carrying a wave packet that erupts with speech, with up to five colours flowing along it in bands.
    • Drawn on Canvas as a 160-point Path with a horizontal gradient. The curve, bands and edge fade follow the iOS wave's maths.
    • The path and colour buffers are reused between frames.
  • AIVoiceVisualizationDefaults.colors() (public): the theme's primary colour. An empty colors list falls back to it.
  • audioLevel is a lambda read once per frame, so a level changing 30 times a second recomposes nothing. A level or expressivity that isn't a finite number is ignored, so it can't stall the motion.
  • Shared internals the glow will reuse:
    • a frame clock on withFrameNanos that redraws without recomposing and doesn't run in previews or snapshots;
    • reduced motion when the system's animations are off, following the setting live;
    • "Voice agent" plus the state as the accessibility label and state description;
    • a tap inside the shape bounces and ripples the view, and a hovering mouse or stylus ripples it. No pointer event is consumed, so a clickable on the view or a parent still gets the click.
  • Six strings: stream_ai_compose_voice_agent and stream_ai_compose_voice_state_*.

Testing

  • Paparazzi snapshots of Speaking, Thinking, Idle and a five-colour palette, light and dark (verifyPaparazziDebug passes).
  • Robolectric:
    • semantics: the label and state description (Idle reads "Ready");
    • touch: a clickable on the wave and a clickable parent both get the tap;
    • frames: the audio level is read once a frame, a NaN level counts as no audio, an empty palette uses the default, a tap ripples where it lands, hover eases in and out.
  • Unit tests for the input clamping, plus the 22 driver tests from Add AIVoiceAgentState and the voice visualization driver #6848.
  • detekt, spotlessApply and apiDump are clean.

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  • New Features

    • Added an animated voice waveform visualization for AI voice states, including speaking, listening, thinking, connecting, and idle.
    • Added customizable colors, animation expressivity, and optional audio-level visualization.
    • Added dark-mode support, tap-reactive motion, and accessibility descriptions.
    • Added localized labels for voice-agent states.
  • Tests

    • Added accessibility and visual snapshot coverage for the voice visualization.

AIVoiceAgentState, and the driver that eases a visualization toward each
state's motion at any frame rate, with the tap bounce and the palette.

Refs AND-1692
A voice agent as a single string carrying a wave packet that erupts with
speech, drawn on Canvas from the shared driver, with the voice
visualizations' default colors, frame clock, accessibility and tap.

Refs AND-1692
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The change adds a public Compose voice-wave visualization with a theme-based default palette. The component renders animated waveforms based on voice-agent state, colors, expressivity, and an optional audio-level callback. Its visualization state handles frame updates, reduced-motion settings, inspection mode, accessibility descriptions, and tap input. The change also adds localized state strings, a preview, semantics tests, and snapshot tests.

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The tap handling is the one I'd like fixed before this goes in; the other two are smaller.

… ignore non-finite input

Taps are watched without being consumed, so a clickable on the view or
a parent still gets them. An empty palette uses the default colors, a
non-finite level or expressivity can no longer stall the motion, and
reduced motion follows the system setting live.
Base automatically changed from feat/and-1692-voice-visualization-driver to develop October 20, 2026 13:52
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### Goal

Android (GetStream/stream-chat-android#6848,
GetStream/stream-chat-android#6849, GetStream/stream-chat-android#6851)
and iOS (GetStream/stream-chat-swift#4338) added two visualizations of a
voice agent to their AI components. This brings them to
`stream-chat-react/ai-components` on v14, with the same motion, so the
three platforms look and move alike, and shows them in a new voice mode
in the `ai-chatbot` sample.

### Implementation details

**Public API**, all from `stream-chat-react/ai-components`:

- `VoiceWave`: a single string carrying a wave packet that erupts with
speech, its colors flowing along it.
- `VoiceGlow`: a soft globe whose color masses orbit inside it and swell
with speech. `rendering?: 'auto' | 'css'` (default `auto`).
- `useAudioLevel(stream)`: a stable getter for the live level of a
`MediaStream` (a microphone or a remote track), for the `audioLevel`
prop.
- Types: `VoiceAgentState`, `VoiceGlowRendering`,
`VoiceVisualizationProps`, `VoiceWaveProps`, `VoiceGlowProps`.

Both components take `state` (`idle | connecting | listening | thinking
| speaking`), `colors` (one to five CSS colors, defaulting to the theme
accent), `expressivity` (0 to 2) and `audioLevel` (a getter read once a
frame, so a changing level re-renders nothing; `null` animates speech on
its own). Any other `div` prop goes to the root.

**Shared motion.** A port of Android's driver: the per-state motion
table, frame-rate-independent easing, reduced motion slowing time to
0.07x, the tap bounce and the HSV palette. The speech envelope runs the
shader's simplex noise in float32, so the CPU-drawn wave and the GPU
glow speak with the same rhythm as iOS.

**VoiceWave** is a Canvas2D port of Android's `WaveDrawing`. Its line is
0.6% of the shorter side with Android's 1.5 device-pixel floor, drawn at
the screen's density up to 3x as on iOS. In speech it is smoothed on the
web: the crests spread out rather than steepen past a slope of 6, and
the height rises quickly and settles slowly. While idle, connecting or
thinking it is exactly the native wave, and it matches Android's
Paparazzi snapshots down to antialiasing.

**VoiceGlow** draws with a GLSL ES 1.00 port of the AGSL shader, at 1x
(it is all soft gradients). Every glow on a page draws with one shared
offscreen WebGL context, as iOS shares one renderer, and copies its
frame onto its own 2D canvas. The shader compiles once, and a page with
many glows stays under the browser's limit on live contexts. If the
context is lost, every glow falls back to CSS and the next glow to mount
starts a fresh context; the last glow to unmount releases it.

`rendering='css'`, also the fallback where WebGL is unavailable or lost,
is one CSS composition of the shader's glow: a color field seen through
a mask riding the first mass's orbit, without the shader's fine marbling
or its second, fainter riding mass. Its gradients are painted once and
only `transform` and `opacity` animate, so the browser's compositor runs
the motion and it keeps moving while the main thread is busy. Off
screen, its animations pause and its theme and audio reads stop. With
GPU acceleration disabled, it holds 60 fps at about 18 to 22% CPU at
300px in headless Chrome.

**Behavior shared with iOS:**

- Only the shape takes the pointer (the globe or the string); clicks
elsewhere in the box pass through. A tap bounces it and a hovering
pointer ripples it, and the root's or a parent's `onClick` still fires.
- It fades in once its first frame is drawn and pauses while off screen,
both the canvas renderers and the CSS glow.
- The canvas follows a change of pixel ratio, as on a move to another
monitor.
- It follows the theme through `--str-chat__ai-voice-color` and
`--str-chat__ai-voice-backdrop`, re-read about once a second.
- The root is `role="img"` with a name such as "Voice agent: Speaking",
translated in all 12 locales.
- It is SSR-safe.

**`useAudioLevel`** measures RMS on demand over the last 2048 samples
(about 43 ms), so the level holds steady through a vowel. The audio
graph is torn down when the stream changes and on unmount.

**Sample app.** `ai-chatbot` gets a voice mode: a full-panel overlay
with the glow for the agent and the wave for the user's microphone. It
uses `useSpeechToText` for dictation and `speechSynthesis` to read
replies aloud, and returns to listening hands-free. A turn the agent is
never seen working on ends after 20 seconds, with its answer if one came
in. The send path moved into a shared `useSendAIMessage`. The sample's
README and `implementation.md` describe it.

**Known differences from native:**

- The glow is drawn at 1x where iOS uses 2x.
- The CSS glow leaves out the shader's second riding mass and its
marbling; a tap sends out a ring instead of a ripple.
- The wave's smoothing in speech exists only on the web; it could be
proposed to Android and iOS.

**Tests:**

- Android's driver tests, ported.
- Palette and color parsing, and the simplex noise against values read
back from the shader on a GPU.
- The wave renderer: native in calm states, the steepness cap, and
attack and release.
- The shared WebGL context: one compile for many glows, losing it, and
releasing it.
- The CSS glow, including resting off screen, and `useAudioLevel`.
- Rejected colors under a browser-like canvas, and the canvas following
a pixel-ratio change.
- SSR, hydration, axe, class names, i18n and the style-token rules,
extended to the new components.

### UI Changes

Screenshots and a recording of voice mode are to be added. In the
meantime, the sample's voice mode shows both components: run `yarn
build`, then `yarn start:ai-chatbot`, and start voice mode from the
composer. Microphone access needs Chrome, Edge or Safari.
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🚀 Available in v7.16.0

oliverlaz added a commit to GetStream/stream-chat-react-native that referenced this pull request Oct 28, 2026
…ations (#3895)

Ticket: https://linear.app/stream/issue/RN-468

## 🎯 Goal

Android (GetStream/stream-chat-android#6848,
GetStream/stream-chat-android#6849, GetStream/stream-chat-android#6851),
iOS (GetStream/stream-chat-swift#4338) and web
(GetStream/stream-chat-react#3339) added two voice-agent visualizations
to their AI components. This brings them to
`stream-chat-react-native/ai-components` (and
`stream-chat-expo/ai-components`) with the same motion, so the platforms
look and move alike, and shows them in a new voice mode in
`ExpoChatGPTSample`.

## 🛠 Implementation details

**Public API** (from the `ai-components` entry point):

- `VoiceWave`: a single string carrying a wave packet that erupts with
speech, its colors flowing along it.
- `VoiceGlow`: a soft globe whose color masses orbit inside it and swell
with speech.
- `useDictationAudioLevel()`: the microphone's live level while
dictation listens, as a Reanimated `SharedValue<number | null>`.
- Types `VoiceAgentState`, `VoiceVisualizationProps`, `VoiceWaveProps`,
`VoiceGlowProps`, `DictationLevel`; `useDictationState` and
`useDictationTranscript` are now exported too.
- An optional `voiceVisualization` theme key: `colors` (default palette,
the accent color) and `backdropColor` (light or dark look; the system
color scheme when unset).

Both components take `state` (`idle | connecting | listening | thinking
| speaking`), `colors` (one to five colors), `expressivity` (0 to 2) and
`audioLevel` (a `SharedValue`, read once a frame on the UI thread;
`null` animates speech on its own). Other `View` props go to the root.

**How it's built:**

- One motion driver, ported from Android's `VoiceVisualizationDriver`
(per-state motion table, frame-rate-independent easing, reduced motion
at 0.07x, tap bounce, HSV palette, and the `Steady`/`Smooth` level
responses for glow and wave). It's plain objects and worklets, advanced
in a Reanimated `useFrameCallback`, so the motion runs on the UI thread
and keeps going while JS is busy streaming a reply.
- `VoiceGlow` is a Skia `RuntimeEffect`: Android's AGSL shader is SkSL,
so it's ported nearly verbatim and runs on every Android version. Every
glow shares one compiled effect. There is no Canvas/CSS fallback and no
`rendering` prop.
- `VoiceWave` is a Skia path with a 13-stop gradient, as Android draws
it; its speech envelope uses the shader's float32 simplex noise (as on
iOS and the web).
- Drawn at most 2x for the glow and 3x for the wave, as on iOS.
- Touches are only observed on a hit area the size of the shape, so a
parent `Pressable` still fires and touches beside the shape pass
through. Hover ripples with a mouse or pen.
- Accessibility follows native: "Voice agent" as the label and the state
as the value; Reduce Motion is honoured.
- Where native and web differ, this follows native (e.g. no web-only
wave smoothing).

**Native dictation:**

- New `AIDictationOnLevel` event (no codegen spec change; it goes
through the existing `NativeEventEmitter`). Android maps the
recognizer's `onRmsChanged`; iOS measures the audio tap in dBFS,
throttled to ~30 Hz, tuned on an iPhone for `.measurement` mode (-60 to
-35 dBFS).
- Fix: iOS dictation now remembers the `AVAudioSession` configuration it
found and restores it when dictation ends. It used to leave the session
in the `.record` category, which muted all playback in the app after the
first dictation and kept other apps' audio ducked.

**Sample:** `ExpoChatGPTSample` gets a full-screen voice mode
(`VoiceGlow` for the agent, `VoiceWave` on the microphone level). It
listens with dictation, sends the transcript, follows the agent's AI
state, reads the reply aloud with `expo-speech` and listens again. The
send path moved into a shared `useSendAIMessage`, and the demo backend
is now called with `platform: 'openai'`, as in the React example (its
Anthropic key currently fails `/summarize`).

**Entry isolation:** everything lives under `src/ai-components`;
`validate-entry-isolation` passes.

## 🎨 UI Changes

Voice mode in `ExpoChatGPTSample`, on a physical iPhone 15 Pro Max and
the iOS simulator. Screenshots and a recording to be added.

## 🧪 Testing

- Unit tests: Android's 22 driver tests and the bounce tests ported;
palette, input clamping, simplex noise against GPU readback values, hit
areas, wave geometry, rendering, accessibility label and value, theme
fallbacks, reduced motion, and the dictation level hook. `yarn
test:unit`, `yarn lint`, `yarn typecheck` and `yarn build` pass.
- The SkSL shader compiles and renders under CanvasKit, matching
Android's Paparazzi snapshot.
- iOS simulator: both visualizations render and animate, and the
voice-mode loop runs (listening, thinking, speaking, back to listening).
Speech recognition itself fails on iOS 27 simulators ("Failed to
initialize recognizer"), so transcription was faked there.
- Physical iPhone: dictation, the mic level driving the wave, the spoken
reply and the full voice loop work.
- Not yet tested: Android on a device (the Android level mapping is
untuned), SampleApp.

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