This free software is useful for converting existing texts like
those available on the Documents List pages into
Devanagari and Roman+diacritics, as well as for typing your own texts.
You DO NOT need ITRANS, TeX, LaTeX,
ghostview/ ghostscript, web browsers, MSWord or any
word processor to get this program working.
The Itranslator 99
uses 8-bit true type fonts and is compatible with all versions of Windows.
The newer Itranslator 2003
uses 16-bit Unicode-compatible fonts and is working only on
Windows 2000 / XP / Server 2003.
A detailed 'Technical Manual of Itranslator' developed by Ulrich Stiehl is available, which includes a comparison of Itranslator 99 and 2003.
Vishvas Vasuki has improved the above version in itrans2devHtml.pl which is a slight modification of the same, and may save people some time.
PDF Utilities
Various fonts used for Sanskrit text formatting,
display and printing. Please download in the binary mode.
A note by Mihas Bayaryn, a Belarusian-English scholar:
The phonetic keyboardlayout for devanaAgarI was developed
using the program Keyboard layout Manager (devanagari inscript layout
requires special character-marks on keyboard). Unicode format
has
its own defects but it is the only solution (it is really
multilingual). There are some reasons for this.
1) Text in unicode is searcheable. 2) It is easy to format this text
in
many fonts (at this moment there about devanagari fonts for unicode,
the
best is Sanskrit2003). 3) It is easy to convert this text to other
encodings (for example by Word macros). 4) Unicode text can contain
characters in many languages (for example Belarusian English Sanskrit
and
many others at once). There are about 20 different indian encodings
for
devanagari (one font - one encoding). These texts are not sercheable,
it
is difficult to convert them in other encodings, and they support
only
devanagari and roman scripts (not cyrilic for example).
Also try out other interfaces at http://www.aksharamala.com, Itrans online interface.
For offline use to generate Devanagari text (Marathi Hindi Sanskrit), try
https://nityin.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/google-offline-typing-tool-for-indian-languages/
http://www.vishalon.net/Download.aspx
http://innolea.com/transliteration-typing-tools-for-hindi-regional-indian-languages/6766
Hindi hunspell dictionary which can be used with notepad++ as well as Open Office , Libre Office etc.
zip file is available from https://github.com/Shreeshrii/hindi-hunspell/blob/master/dict-hi_IN.zip
Instruction for using Hunspell Hindi dictionary and Hindi spellchecker (old)
http://raviratlami.blogspot.in/2012/10/blog-post.html
In notepad++, use it with dspellcheck plugin.
hi_IN.dic and hi_IN.aff files have to be copied to C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\Hunspell
For those who are interested, the rules are defined in
https://github.com/Shreeshrii/hindi-hunspell/blob/master/dict-hi_IN/hi_IN.aff
Ubuntu-Linux has IBUS suitable to edit texts offline in various Indic fonts. Here are instructions to install and use it
Q : How does one use .dll and .msi files?
.msi file format is executable in WinXP - like all .exe files. And
.dll file in
1. unpack keyboard.zip file in one directory
2. run sanskrit.msi file
3. go to Control Panel > Languages and Regional Settings >
Languages > More > Languages and IME
4. then add Sanskrit as Language and Sanskrit Romanized as IME.
5. all is done. To type devanagari in text-editor one also must have
installed at least one unicode font
which supports devanagari (Mangal, Arial MS Unicode, Sanskrit 2003,
GIST-Yogesh and others).
Using
https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-acl.447.pdf
and
वाक्सञ्चयः - संस्कृतवाणीकोशः
Vāksañcayaḥ - Sanskrit Speech Corpus
by
IIT Bombay
https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~asr/. Contribute audios of texts if your Sanskrit diction and pronunciation is clear and exceptional.