I have the following suggestions to improve working with advanded voice mode.
Stopping the Voice
You should be able to reliably abort the AI voice without having to use your own voice for that. This can help you not losing your thought when the AI babbles on about non-essential stuff after first saying something inspiring. You may need a moment to phrase your answer to the inspiration without getting distracted.
Using your voice isn’t reliable enough to stop the voice, makes the voice react again, and makes your speech-associated thought more volatile by you having to use your speech center to trigger the abortion.
There could be a new stop button in the UI, which should also be triggerable via a key. But instead of having a gray button, the animated circle could also be the stop button, possibly even with a visual hover state that colors the animation red.
Suspending the Voice from Starting to Talk
I regularly find myself struggling for words and subsequently being at risk that the AI won’t let me finish, so that it answers prematurely. This further ruins my train of thought. There should be a way to ensure the AI will continue to listen, even if you pause.
I propose a new UI button (also triggerable via key) that can either be pressed normally (i.e., briefly) to toggle the mode described below, or held to activate the mode while it is pressed (meaning it’s activated when, during holding the button, the brief-click timeout elapsed). Theoretically, the button action (at least the holding kind of action) could also be performed when clicking the free space anywhere in the window. When using the associated key, the same one-press toggling as well as holding should be possible.
The button would activate a mode at any time in your speech (including after you already talked a bit) during which pauses in your speech won’t trigger the AI response. Of course, long pauses could be cut out instead of being sent to the servers and unnecessarily straining them. As soon as you leave the mode, the timeout to trigger the AI response is relative to when you last said something, not when you left the mode; i.e., when you were silent for a while at the end of the time in the mode, the AI starts immediately after leaving the mode, because the answer is then recognized as already overdue timeout-wise; reacting on the timeout was just postponed.