In truth, I've never had much luck with the phonetic algorithms, and i've implemented Caverphone 2, Double metaphone, and NYSIIS [0]. Totally subjective, but i

In truth, I've never had much luck with the phonetic algorithms, and i've implemented Caverphone 2, Double metaphone, and NYSIIS [0]. Totally subjective, but in my domain I've had better use either using cheaper string distance/similarity metrics (hamming, jaro/winkler, etc), or if you're looking for some kind of resource-saving/fuzzy indexing/blocking type use, an application that uses or extracts ngrams has worked pretty well for me. Your mileage may vary... [0] https://github.com/DJMelksham/SAS-Data-Linking-Functions https://github.com/DJMelksham/SAS-Data-Linking-Functions