feat(indicators): refine audio response

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Summary

Refines the live audio indicators on macOS and iOS so they feel deliberate, responsive, and visually consistent while retaining independent platform tuning. The ambient listening ripple now remains present beneath live volume movement, allowing speech to rise naturally over the baseline and settle smoothly back into it.

macOS Overlay

• adds a stateful 120 Hz high-pass measurement for the visual meter to reduce low-frequency air and wind response
• subtracts the adaptive visual threshold before applying the tuned 5.5 level boost
• resets visual filter state for each recording session
• keeps the listening ripple active while live volume overrides it bar by bar
• separates attack and release smoothing with tuned rates of 15 and 5

iOS Keyboard

• adds the same visual-only 120 Hz high-pass measurement within the iOS capture accumulator
• preserves independent iOS tuning with a 2.7 level boost
• resets visual filter state with the capture accumulator
• keeps the listening ripple active beneath live volume movement
• separates listening attack and release smoothing with tuned rates of 25 and 8

Audio Behavior

• filtering applies only to the values driving the visual indicators
• captured audio samples and transcription input remain unchanged
• Mac and iOS retain separate implementations and constants for their different microphones, timing, rendering, and perceived motion

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Audio visualization now uses high-pass-filtered RMS values with thresholded scaling. Listening indicators use separate attack and decay smoothing rates. Logo bars combine animated baseline heights with displayed audio levels.

Changes

Audio visualization and indicator response

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Filtered visual meter processing iOS/KeyVox iOS/Core/Audio/AudioRecorder+Streaming.swift, macOS/Core/Audio/AudioRecorder.swift, macOS/Core/Audio/AudioRecorder+Session.swift, macOS/Core/Audio/AudioRecorder+Streaming.swift	Audio recorders maintain high-pass filter state and compute filtered RMS values for visual levels and activity detection. Raw RMS remains used for speech or capture metrics.
Attack and decay smoothing iOS/KeyVox Keyboard/Core/Dictation/AudioIndicatorDriver.swift, macOS/Core/Overlay/AudioIndicatorDriver.swift	Listening indicators use separate rates for increasing and decreasing displayed levels.
Listening and low-activity bar rendering iOS/KeyVox Keyboard/Views/Components/KeyboardLogoBarView.swift, macOS/Views/Components/LogoBarView.swift	Logo bars combine animated low-activity heights with displayed audio levels. macOS centralizes listening height calculation in listeningAudioBarHeight.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bb17b

The visual indicators currently use gain values different from the requested platform tuning, which can make their response feel inconsistent on iOS and macOS. The impact is limited to indicator behavior, so the PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and a follow-up to apply the specified values.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AudioRecorder
  participant AudioIndicatorDriver
  participant LogoBarView
  AudioRecorder->>AudioIndicatorDriver: provide filtered visual level
  AudioIndicatorDriver->>AudioIndicatorDriver: apply attack or decay smoothing
  AudioIndicatorDriver->>LogoBarView: provide displayed level
  LogoBarView->>LogoBarView: combine animated and audio-based heights

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Possibly related PRs

• macmixing/keyvox#28: Directly changes the same AudioIndicatorDriver and LogoBarView visualization logic.
• macmixing/keyvox#66: Directly changes KeyboardLogoBarView audio-indicator rendering.
• macmixing/keyvox#86: Extends the macOS LogoBarView visualization behavior.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely summarizes the pull request's main changes to audio indicators.

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Inline comments:
In `@iOS/KeyVox` iOS/Core/Audio/AudioRecorder+Streaming.swift:
- Around line 166-170: Update the visual gain multiplier in the iOS
AudioRecorder+Streaming.swift visual meter calculation to 3.0, and update the
corresponding macOS calculation in
macOS/Core/Audio/AudioRecorder+Streaming.swift at lines 105-110 to 5.2; leave
the captured audio processing unchanged.

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📒 Files selected for processing (8)

• iOS/KeyVox Keyboard/Core/Dictation/AudioIndicatorDriver.swift
• iOS/KeyVox Keyboard/Views/Components/KeyboardLogoBarView.swift
• iOS/KeyVox iOS/Core/Audio/AudioRecorder+Streaming.swift
• macOS/Core/Audio/AudioRecorder+Session.swift
• macOS/Core/Audio/AudioRecorder+Streaming.swift
• macOS/Core/Audio/AudioRecorder.swift
• macOS/Core/Overlay/AudioIndicatorDriver.swift
• macOS/Views/Components/LogoBarView.swift