Metaphone [1] addresses a lot of issues Soundex has. While Soundex is aimed specifically at names, Metaphone works for all English words. PS: Inspired by Metap

Metaphone [1] addresses a lot of issues Soundex has. While Soundex is aimed specifically at names, Metaphone works for all English words. PS: Inspired by Metaphone, I wrote MLphone [2] a phonetic lib for the Malayalam (South India) language. The phonetic keys the algorithm produces are Roman characters though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone [2] https://nadh.in/code/mlphone/ https://nadh.in/code/mlphone/