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Speaking Avatar
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Speaking Avatar

Voice-call avatar with rings that ripple outward from the disc to show the person is currently speaking.

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lines of CSS
51lines of CSS
dependencies
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browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
stops under reduced motion
Guardedstops under reduced motion
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speaking-avatar-15159.css
.fx-v12-av-speaking-15158 {
  position: relative;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  width: 110px;
  height: 110px;
}
.fx-v12-av-speaking-15158 .disc {
  position: relative;
  z-index: 1;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  width: 64px;
  height: 64px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  background: linear-gradient(135deg, #34d399, #047857);
  color: #fff;
  font-weight: 700;
  font-size: 1.2rem;
  border: 3px solid #10b981;
}
.fx-v12-av-speaking-15158 i {
  position: absolute;
  width: 64px;
  height: 64px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  border: 2px solid #10b981;
  animation: fx-v12-av-speaking-15158-ring 1.8s ease-out infinite;
}
.fx-v12-av-speaking-15158 i:nth-child(3) { animation-delay: 0.9s; }
@keyframes fx-v12-av-speaking-15158-ring {
  0% { transform: scale(1); opacity: 0.8; }
  100% { transform: scale(1.7); opacity: 0; }
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .fx-v12-av-speaking-15158,
  .fx-v12-av-speaking-15158::before,
  .fx-v12-av-speaking-15158::after,
  .fx-v12-av-speaking-15158 *,
  .fx-v12-av-speaking-15158 *::before,
  .fx-v12-av-speaking-15158 *::after {
    animation-duration: 1ms !important;
    animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
    animation-delay: 0ms !important;
    transition-duration: 1ms !important;
    transition-delay: 0ms !important;
  }
}
speaking-avatar-15159.html
<div class="fx-v12-av-speaking-15158">
  <span class="disc">EL</span>
  <i></i>
  <i></i>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put speaking-avatar-15159.css anywhere your page already loads CSS from — in Next.js that is app/globals.css, or any stylesheet with a <link> in your HTML.
  2. Then put the class on the element you want it on: <button class="fx-v12-av-speaking-15158">. The CSS does nothing until a class name in it matches something on the page.
  • Link the stylesheet, then paste the markup wherever you need it.
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What's included

  • The markup and the stylesheet, in whichever framework you pick
  • No runtime dependencies

Works with

  • React
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  • Svelte
  • Tailwind
  • styled-components
  • Plain CSS

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Motion safety

Static estimate, read from the CSS

Reduced motion
Guarded

Ships a prefers-reduced-motion block, so the loop settles into its end state for visitors who ask for less motion.

What it animates
Compositor only

Only transform, opacity or filter: the GPU can run it without re-laying-out or repainting the page.

Flashing (WCAG 2.3.1)
Under 3 flashes/s

Its brightest loop is about 0.6 a second. Estimated from duration, iterations and keyframes, not from rendered frames.

Layout shift (CLS)
No shift expected

Nothing it animates moves or resizes the box in flow. A category from the CSS, not a measurement for this effect.

Every row is read from the shipped CSS. Only a figure marked measured came from a browser. Customizing the speed changes the timing, so recheck a customized copy. How it is computed

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7 variations of Speaking Avatar

Finished looks, each one a position in the customizer above. Copy any of them, or open it and keep moving the sliders.