Why is that Gray Audio thing getting in the way of my Texting?

[Carm]

I had a similar problem. Mentioned in another thread. I accidentally opened it, I would type text and it was unreadable until you press send. No x came up for me though. I ended up just closing the program and re launching it. It happened a few times in 9.0. i did send an audio message by accident. I wish there was an option to disable that.
Edit: Apparently it also happened in 8. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6675871