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Perkins

The phonetician's assistant

New! Version 2.0.0

Perkins is software which phonemically transcribes, syllabifies, assigns accents, detects pauses and performs a series of other analyses on Spanish orthographic texts. Its many output modes include IPA transcriptions (which can be highly customized), CV, place of articulation, manner of articulation, one word per line and one syllable per line (for feeding into various other programs). Perkins can be used with its default configuration, or customized with command line flags or a configuration file (perkins.ini). Its default language is English, but its interface, help and usage examples can be in Spanish if you simply run it with the "-es" flag.

This new version of Perkins is a complete overhaul from version 1.x.x,. A huge number of new features have been added, omissions have been rectified, and some bugs have been fixed.

Perkins is written in Perl. You can run the Perl script directly if you have Perl installed (perl perkins.pl -i INPUTFILE.txt). Linux users can run pre-compiled binary (./perkins -i INPUTFILE.txt), and Windows users can run an executable from either the Command Prompt or Powershell (perkins.exe -i INPUTFILE.txt). Mac users will have to use the Perl script, as the software I use to make binaries can't cross-compile, and I have no Mac to do it on directly.

Perkins has a very extensive help system accessed by using the -h flag (perkins.pl -h · ./perkins -h · perkins.exe -h). It also has myriad concrete usage examples provided by the -u flag (perkins.pl -u · ./perkins -u / perkins.exe -u).

It comes with a skeleton configuration file (perkins.ini) which also allows you to see which options are available.

Please send bug reports to this e-mail address.

How to cite: Sadowsky, Scott. 2026. Perkins - The Phonetician's Assistant. Version 2.0.0. Computer software. https://sadowsky.cl/perkins.htm

Download the Perkins 2.0.0 Perl script

Download the Perkins 2.0.0 binary for Linux

Download the Perkins 2.0.0 .exe for Windows

Published under the GNU Affero GPL v3 license.

Old versions

1.0.5

• Perl script / Source code
• Windows x64 (.exe)
• Linux x64 (binary)

1.0.0

• Perl script / source codel
  Windows x64 (.exe)
  Windows x86 (.exe)
  Linux x64 (binary)
  Linux x86 (binary)
  Mac OSX (experimental)

0.4.6.3

• Windows x86 (exe)
  Windows x64 (exe)
  Linux x86 (binary)
  Linux x64 (binary)
  Mac OS (experimental)