python "sounds-like" module

[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Dec 12, 6:39 pm, Astan Chee <st... at al.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for all the help from the previous problem. Turns out I didnt
> have to use wxSizers, just change the size of my wxWidgets everytime a
> EVT_SIZE is called.
> Anyway, Im trying to find a python module (im not sure if it exists)
> that takes two words and compares if they sound the same. So 'right' and
> 'write' sounds the same or 'u' and 'you' . Also I know this takes into
> account the use of language and accent but is there any out there before
> I start making my own?
> Thanks
> Astan

I don't think this exists. It would require some kind of "fuzzy logic"
to do, I think. You'll probably want to look into speech recognition
as it sounds the closest to what you want/need.

Here a couple links I found with Google:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/93025
http://speechwiki.org/
http://www.synapseadaptive.com/joel/natlink_m.htm

Otherwise, I think you'd need to write some kind of hash table with
all the variations for each word, then you'd apply some artificial
intelligence or that fuzzy logic I mentioned previously to get what
you want.

And no, I've never done this sort of thing. This is just me rambling
on...

Mike