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Show HN: Find names that sound like other names
- dbatten 10y agoBuilt this tool after my wife and I found ourselves wishing for something like it while pregnant with our first baby. Type in a name, and you'll find others that sound similar. Really interested in hearing thoughts/feedback from the community... Also interested in how the site holds up under load. Thanks!
- oknoorap 10y agonice tool, bookmarked.
- digital_ins 10y agoNice! What's the thought process behind the recommendation? Are you using spelling similarities, or something like that?
- dbatten 10y agoI actually used a tool from CMU (link below) to convert the names to their pronunciations, represented as a series of phonemes or sounds. I then simply compare the similarities in the sound representation of the different names. It's an extremely simple algorithm, but it works pretty well. http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/tools/lextool.html http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/tools/lextool.html