Hi,

(Sorry just leaving this as a comment for now, if I get time I'll try to submit a PR.)

I've noticed that at least a couple of people to whom I sent the https://avinashvarna.github.io/audio_alignment/ link thought that it wasn't working — digging deeper, it seems that what happened is that in the below screenshot (sorry for the large image size) they clicked on one of the links in the red rectangles, instead of clicking in the green rectangle:

I wonder if there's some way to make this more obvious. For example, does the "text source", "audio source" and "aligned by" need to be on the main page — could it instead be made that clicking on "Rāmāyaṇa" (say) takes you to an "about" page (or even the page for the first sarga, with the details on a separate page)?

Automate task described in https://github.com/avinashvarna/audio_alignment/tree/main/interface and push the static pages to the repo so that they can be hosted on github pages.

I was looking at vishvAsa's email regarding ~1k mahAbhArata recordings and texts being available, e.g. here, and thinking that it might be a good addition to this site. The complicating factor appears to be that there are multiple audio files per adhyAya. For generating the alignment, it is easy to locally concatenate the files into one larger file. but it is not clear what is the easiest way to present it on the website. Any thoughts @hrishikeshrt @shreevatsa?

Request from @thakkaha to add URL Query/Search parameters to set speed and mode - enables sharing a link that ensures everyone has the same settings. Useful for a class/abhiyaanam.

Also discussed in #9 (comment) - Add a link or some nav controls to go to the next chapter.

Document the structure of the data.json or add a "How to add a new set of data" section to the README to make it easy to contribute new aligned audio + text data.

Text is available from ashtadhyayi.com/ (I can push text files in)
One source for audio is http://surasa.net/music/samskrta-vani/ashtadhyayi.php
Another is https://www.sanskritfromhome.in/course/ashtadhyayi/ (While this one is not freely available, it is very precise and devoid of some occasional errors, thus more useful for someone trying to learn to chant/memorise)

I tried aligning both versions. I am not sure if it's my system or it's about the nature of the text, but the alignments I obtained are pretty bad.

After the recent posting of this website on many mailing lists, a few people (especially from India) asked if this tool could be installed as an app, so that it could be used offline. This seems like a reasonable goal.

The easiest path I could think of to achieve this was to create a progressive web app so that the site could be "installed". We can leverage the existing flask/jinja templates in nunjucks and create a service worker that caches files that the user has visited recently using something like workbox, so that they can be used offline as well. I will try to test out some of these tools.

Any thoughts? @hrishikeshrt @shreevatsa