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Voice notes

When you can't type — driving between visits, gloved up, mid-procedure — record a short voice note instead. It rides the same encrypted, scanned pipeline as any file.

A fifteen-second voice note — "running ten late to the Henderson visit, can someone cover the 2 o'clock?" — is faster and safer than thumbing a message at a stoplight. A voice note in Rounds is simply an encrypted attachment that happens to be audio, so everything you already trust about file handling applies.

Recording a voice note

  1. Open a conversation

    From the chat workspace, click the channel or direct message where the voice note belongs. The composer sits at the bottom of the conversation.

  2. Press the microphone button

    At the left of the composer are two icons: a paper-clip and a microphone. Press the microphone to start recording — a live timer and level meter show the take in progress.

  3. Stop, then preview

    Press stop to end the recording. You can play it back before deciding what to do with it.

  4. Send or discard

    Send the clip — with or without accompanying text — or discard it and try again. Nothing is uploaded until you send.
Step 2 — the highlighted microphone icon at the left of the composer starts a voice-note recording.
The microphone button sits beside the paper-clip in the composer.

Listening to a voice note

A sent voice note appears as an audio player in the message — play and pause, a scrubber to move through the clip, and the duration. Like every attachment, it shows a brief "Scanning…" state while Rounds checks it for malware; only a clean clip becomes playable.

A sent voice note renders as a play-and-scrub audio player.

Good to know

  • There's a length cap. Voice notes are short by design — a few minutes at most. The recorder stops at the cap.
  • No transcription. Rounds deliberately does not turn voice into text — a transcript would be a second copy of the PHI to protect. The audio is the only artifact.
  • If your device can't record — an older browser, or microphone access declined — the microphone button is unavailable and you can still send text and files normally.