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Metaphone is a much better alternative to Soundex for phonetic indexing of English words. Phonetic indexing is an interesting concept, and inspired by Metaphone
by knadh 7y ago
Metaphone is a much better alternative to Soundex for phonetic indexing of English words. Phonetic indexing is an interesting concept, and inspired by Metaphone, I was able to write algorithms for Malayalam[1] and Kannada[2], two Dravidian (Indic) languages. They work well for searches and suggestions.
[1] https://github.com/knadh/mlphone https://github.com/knadh/mlphone
[2] https://github.com/knadh/knphone https://github.com/knadh/knphone
- larsga 7y agoI've tried using Soundex in practice, and I found it to be too coarse-grained to be really useful. Metaphone is much better, even if it's more complex.
- geektips 7y agoThank you, I am a frequent user of your olam dictionary. Is there a JavaScript port of mlphone available ?
- knadh 7y agoThanks :) There isn't one in JS, but it should be really easy to port.