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I'm no expert on phonetic matching, but a product I worked on many years ago used Soundex. (It's meant for English pronunciation, so you'd have to research oth

by timpark 11y ago

I'm no expert on phonetic matching, but a product I worked on many years ago used Soundex. (It's meant for English pronunciation, so you'd have to research other languages) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex

kevin_thibedeau 11y ago
Soundex is optimized for collapsing the spelling of names into a common key and isn't so hot for general words. Metaphone would be a more useful matching algorithm. It also preserves a legible spelling so that you can pass the result onto further fuzzy matching stages like an edit distance measure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone