#i mean the user could try denoising the audio themselves before using the program. i could imagine fucking up noise removal would be bad

[hungwy]

man, you know what would be sick to make? a program that takes speech and outputs IPA. i remember for a class i had to do speech analysis or whatever thats called--the thing where you listen to a conversation by ear and notate all the different nuances of the speech--and like, it was fun, but its definitely an acquired skill. anyway this program would just be IPA (with some spaces for pauses)! i mean youd first have to make sure the program recognizes speech from other noise, but otherwise you just have to figure out how to assign all the formants to IPA. you could have different language profiles, too