Metaphone

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  metaphone
       
           An {algorithm} for encoding a word so that
          similar sounding words encode the same.  It's similar to
          {soundex} in purpose, but as it knows the basic rules of
          English pronunciation it's more accurate.  The higher accuracy


          doesn't come free, though, metaphone requires more
          computational power as well as more storage capacity, but
          neither of these requirements are usually prohibitive.  It is
          in the public domain so it can be freely implemented.
       
          Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips
          .  It is described in ["Practical
          Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley,
          1995].
       
          (1998-12-22)