python "sounds-like" module

John Machin sjmachin at lexicon.net
Thu Dec 13 01:31:23 EST 2007


On Dec 13, 4:12 pm, Astan Chee <st... at al.com.au> wrote:
> John Machin wrote:
> > Someone is sure to trot out the hoary old soundex ... believe me, it's
> > teh suxxor.
>
> Plus febrl has soundex in it (as well as several modified versions of
> it) among other things. Looks like this is what Im looking for.
> Thanks!
> Astan

febrl has soundex in there so that they could compare it with other
phonetic schemes. febrl has what you are lookin for. soundex is NOT
what you should be looking for.

Cheers,
John



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