Two years after the imposition of a student cell phone ban, student test scores in a large urban school district were significantly higher than before, David N. Figlio and Umut Özek find in The Impact of Cell Phone Bans in Schools on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Florida (NBER Working Paper 34388).
You might be able to reach the intended audience at lesswrong forum. Can also ask Zvi (https://thezvi.substack.com/), astralcodexten, Marginal Revolution to publicize this.
> So I bought the cheapest possible USB audio card for about $20
That looks like a generic Chinese USB audio card and they are sold for much less where I live (~$1.5). Aliexpress has a ton of them around that price level.
Also, you might want to change the title so that it appeals to people outside the ML field. Not many devs are familiar with OpenAI Clip. Otherwise an awesome project, this is something I wanted to make myself.