Metaphone
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Metaphone is a phonetic algorithm, an algorithm for indexing words by their sound, when pronounced in English.
Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips as a response to deficiencies in the Soundex algorithm. Metaphone is available as a built-in operator in a number of systems, including later versions of PHP.
External links
- http://aspell.sourceforge.net/metaphone/
- Page for PHP implementation of Metaphone (http://www.zend.com/manual/function.metaphone.php)
- Freely available Soundex, Metaphone, and Double Metaphone implementation in Java at http://jakarta.apache.org/commons codec project