RhymeHelper

Using the input from CMU's SPHINX Project, given a word return a list of rhyming words, annotated by the number of matching phonemes and their phonetic definition, sorted by the number of matching phonemes.

The API is being hosted on Heroku and on AWS.

Routes

GET /:word

Get a list of words matching at least 2 phonemes sorted by strength, in strict mode

GET /:word?loose=true

Enable loose mode

Example output for 'ORANGE' (GET /orange)

{
    word: "CHALLENGE",
    display: "[3] CHALLENGE: CH AE1 L AH0 N JH",
    strength: 3
},
{
    word: "ALONGE",
    display: "[3] ALONGE: AE1 L AH0 N JH",
    strength: 3
},
{
    word: "COUNTERCHALLENGE",
    display: "[3] COUNTERCHALLENGE: K AW1 N T ER0 CH AE2 L AH0 N JH",
    strength: 3
},
{
    word: "COUNTERCHALLENGE(1)",
    display: "[3] COUNTERCHALLENGE(1): K AW1 N ER0 CH AE2 L AH0 N JH",
    strength: 3
},
{
    word: "LOZENGE",
    display: "[3] LOZENGE: L AO1 Z AH0 N JH",
    strength: 3
},
{
    word: "SCAVENGE",
    display: "[3] SCAVENGE: S K AE1 V AH0 N JH",
    strength: 3
},
{
    word: "BINGE",
    display: "[2] BINGE: B IH1 N JH",
    strength: 2
},
{
    word: "DERANGE",
    display: "[2] DERANGE: D IH0 R EY1 N JH",
    strength: 2
},
{
    word: "DOWNRANGE",
    display: "[2] DOWNRANGE: D AW1 N R EY1 N JH",
    strength: 2
}