diff --git a/app/backend/InputOutputHandler.tsx b/app/backend/InputOutputHandler.tsx
index 3b00707..02a227b 100644
--- a/app/backend/InputOutputHandler.tsx
+++ b/app/backend/InputOutputHandler.tsx
@@ -2,11 +2,9 @@
 import React, { useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
 import ConversationFrontend from "../components/ConversationFrontend";
 import InputFrontend from "../components/InputFrontend";
-import VoiceSend from "./voice_backend"
 import axios from "axios";
 import { skip } from "node:test";
 
-
 const InputOutputBackend: React.FC = () => {
   type Message = {
     role: string
@@ -21,10 +19,6 @@ const InputOutputBackend: React.FC = () => {
   const [inputMessage, setInputMessage] = useState<string>("")
   const [inputDisabled, setInputDisabled] = useState(false)
   const [lastMessage, setLastMessage] = useState<Message>({ role: "user", content: "Not supposed to happen." })
-  const [isRecording, setIsRecording] = useState(false);
-  const mediaRecorderRef = useRef<MediaRecorder | null>(null);
-  const audioChunksRef = useRef<Blob[]>([]);
-
 
   console.log(messages);
 
@@ -142,47 +136,9 @@ const InputOutputBackend: React.FC = () => {
     }
   }
 
-  const startRecording = async () => {
-    const stream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({ audio: true });
-    mediaRecorderRef.current = new MediaRecorder(stream);
-
-    mediaRecorderRef.current.ondataavailable = (event) => {
-      audioChunksRef.current.push(event.data);
-    };
-
-    mediaRecorderRef.current.onstop = () => {
-      const audioBlob = new Blob(audioChunksRef.current, { type: 'audio/wav' });
-      audioChunksRef.current = []; // Clear the chunks for the next recording
-      // Call your existing function to send the audioBlob
-      // Example: sendAudioToApi(audioBlob);
-    };
-
-    mediaRecorderRef.current.start();
-    setIsRecording(true);
-
-    // Automatically stop recording after 10 seconds
-    setTimeout(() => {
-      stopRecording();
-    }, 10000);
-  };
-
-  const stopRecording = () => {
-    if (mediaRecorderRef.current) {
-      mediaRecorderRef.current.stop();
-      setIsRecording(false);
-      var remote = new VoiceSend()
-      remote.sendToVoiceRecognition(new Blob(audioChunksRef.current, { type: 'audio/wav' }), remote.voiceDataTemplate);
-    }
-  };
-
-
   const handleMicClick = () => {
-    if (!isRecording) {
-      startRecording();
-    } else {
-      stopRecording();
-    }
-  };
+    // do stuff
+  }
 
   const handleResendClick = () => {
     var temporary_message = messages[messages.length - 2]['content']
diff --git a/app/backend/voice_backend.ts b/app/backend/voice_backend.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 650afeb..0000000
--- a/app/backend/voice_backend.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-import axios from "axios";
-
-class VoiceSend {
-
-    voiceDataTemplate = {
-        type: "basic",
-        audio_data: null,
-        option: "offline"
-    }
-
-    sendToVoiceRecognition(audio_data: Blob, data: any) {
-        var dataSend = data
-        dataSend['audio_data'] = audio_data
-        axios.post("http://localhost:5000/interstellar_ai/api/voice_recognition", dataSend)
-            .then((response: any) => {
-                console.log(response['response'])
-                return response['response']
-            })
-            .catch(error => {
-                console.log("Error calling API:", error)
-                postMessage({ status: 500 })
-            })
-    }
-
-}
-
-
-export default VoiceSend;
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