skrutable

For making Sanskrit "less inscrutible" for anyone interested, and because I like Maharashtrian pronunciation. :)

skrutable is a toolkit and online workbench providing useful functions for working with Sanskrit text, specifically: transliteration, scansion, meter identification, and (through the amazing work of Oliver Hellwig and Sebastian Nehrdich) sandhi and compound splitting.

Other tools have their advantages, too, but skrutable brings several new things to the table, including:

• integrated and user-friendly access to diverse functionality in one place
• modular design for use in other coding projects (object-oriented library, API)
• and handy new features such as
• clear and customizable scansion output in plain-text
• optional pāda re-splitting for meter identification
• multiple suggestions for recitation melodies (learn more about the reciters)
• one-click access to word splitting
• uploading for fast whole-file processing

Whether you're a beginning student or an advanced scholar, skrutable is there to help you understand and enjoy Sanskrit language and literature.

skrutable was first presented to the scholarly community on 12 Jan 2022 (mp4 ↓ of full talk, 36 min) (pdf ↓ of paper). A follow-up demo that includes latest updates is scheduled for 13 Jan 2023 (mp4 ↓ of talk shortened to 20 min).

For more info on the special case of using this software to detect metrical errors, see the "Scan GRETIL" page and the above-mentioned paper.

Feedback

• Did you find a bug 🐞 and see skrutable break?
• Or do you have any other comments or suggestions?

I'd love to hear from you. My name is Tyler (Academia, LinkedIn) and my Gmail is tyler.g.neill.

Technical

For those so inclined:

• The underlying code is a Python library available on GitHub, plus an associated Flask API and graphical front-end, as well as a separate sever for splitting functionality, all currently deployed on PythonAnywhere.
• I'm maintaining a history of significant changes and list of next tasks here for transparency.