This took me way longer than expected, but it’s done for now (until someone inevitably finds a bug).
Anyone with test files and/or a current backup of your files: Feel free to try my script lyrict to test, embed or extract synced and unsynced lyrics from and to LYRICS, UNSYNCEDLYRICS, SYLT, USLT tags/frames and .lrc/.txt files. 
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Just adding my support for word-synced lyrics!
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Need this feature, and here’s the enhanced lrc files I found.
Use the upload here.
@Tolriq I would like to see the word-synced lyrics to 
As these are also somewhat standardized:
Cannot stress enough how much I want this feature, I got a bunch of songs with syllable/ELRC Lyrics and being able to properly see them in a great music player like this would be the cherry on top.
Looks like Jellyfin will have API support for .elrc lyrics in the next release. I think with WhisperAI and similar models getting better and better at transcribing/aligning text word by word, .elrc lyrics will become more prominent as the manual labor of creating them has decreased significantly.
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