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[Bug]: Stopping recording immediately after starting causes UI to hang on "Transcribing..." #169

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Android app

What happened?

Observed behavior

The UI gets stuck showing "Transcribing..." indefinitely. Tapping the button again (a short tap) "unfreezes" it — the UI resets back to the pre-recording state, making it clear that no actual transcription happened; the request just silently returned nothing and the UI never accounted for that.

Expected behavior

The app should handle the "recording stopped with effectively no audio" case explicitly and predictably:

  • Either skip transcription entirely and reset to idle state right away, or
  • Show a quick, clear message (e.g. "Recording too short") instead of hanging on "Transcribing...".

Either way, the user shouldn't need an extra tap to recover from a stuck state — this should resolve on its own.

Note: this seems like a straightforward edge case to handle explicitly (detect near-zero-length recording) rather than a deep architectural issue.

How to reproduce

  1. Start recording.
  2. Immediately stop it (within roughly a second, before any meaningful audio is captured).

Phone and version

Pixel 5, Android 14, 0.1.0-beta.14

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