Can I pause recording or exclude confidential segments during a meeting?

Discretion and Redaction During Executive Sessions

Meetings frequently transition between general team planning and highly confidential matters: discussing unannounced acquisitions, reviewing employee compensation, or sharing sensitive legal advice.

You must be able to halt recording instantaneously without terminating the meeting session or splitting your final notes into disconnected files.

Interactive Pause and Resume Controls

Oyma gives you complete control over what is captured:

• Global Pause Shortcut (⌘⇧P): Immediately pauses audio capture from both your microphone and system audio streams. The menu bar icon changes to a paused indicator.
• Floating Recording Bar: A subtle, draggable floating pill widget displays current recording duration, audio input levels, and a large Pause/Resume toggle.
• Zero Buffer Leakage: While paused, Oyma completely halts writes to disk and clears in-memory ring buffers. Audio spoken during the pause is never captured or processed by transcription models.

+-----------------------------------------------------------+
|  [● REC] 24:15  |  [|| Pause (⌘⇧P)]  |  [■ Finish]        |
|                                                           |
|  Status: ACTIVE CAPTURE (Mic + System Output)             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+

Post-Recording Redaction

If sensitive information (such as credit card numbers or passwords) was inadvertently spoken before you could pause:

1. Open the generated transcript note.
2. Highlight the sensitive text and click Redact Segment.
3. Oyma replaces the transcript text with [REDACTED] and permanently silences that corresponding audio slice in the underlying .m4a file.

Operational Security During Sensitive Deliberations

During confidential executive sessions or legal consultations:

• Zero Residual Audio in Memory: When you trigger Pause (⌘⇧P), Oyma immediately clears its hardware ring buffer. Audio spoken during the pause does not linger in RAM.
• Visual Paused State: The floating recording pill displays a distinct amber warning state so you always know when recording is inactive.
• Permanent Blackout Segments: Redacting transcript text strips both the written words and zeroes out the underlying audio frames in the .m4a file, ensuring no audible residue remains.

Complete Memory and Disk Clearance During Mute

When pausing recording with ⌘⇧P, the hardware audio tap immediately clears in-memory ring buffers. Conversations held during pause never touch volatile memory or disk storage, providing airtight confidentiality during private executive deliberations.

The floating status pill pulses with a high-contrast amber indicator to ensure you never forget that recording is paused, and pressing ⌘⇧P again resumes capture instantly without missing a beat.

Privacy Controls Summary

• Global Shortcut: Press ⌘⇧P to pause or resume recording instantly from any application.
• Zero Memory Residuals: Immediately purges hardware audio ring buffers upon pause trigger.
• Visual Feedback: High-contrast floating pill widget displays amber pause indicator.
• Post-Call Redaction: Permanently silences underlying audio slices and redacts transcript text.
• Visual Scrubber Gap: Paused intervals appear as subtle visual breaks in the audio waveform timeline, letting you verify that private comments were excluded.