Phonetics

The phonetics module computes the phonetic key of a string using different algorithms.

• Soundex
• NYSISS
• Metaphone
• Double Metaphone

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Installation

Latest PyPI stable release

pip install phonetics

Latest development release on github

Pull and install in the current directory:

pip install -e git+https://github.com/Zack--/phonetics.git@master#egg=phonetics

Running tests

By Duncan McGreggor

$ python -m unittest discover phonetics/tests/ -v

Or

nosetests --with-coverage --cover-package=phonetics

Usage

>>> import phonetics
>>> phonetics.dmetaphone('Danger')
('TNJR', 'TNKR')

Module Contents

The phonetics module defines the following function:

phonetics. soundex(source [, size=4])

Use the soundex algorithm to create the phonetic key of the source string.

phonetics. nysiis(source)

Use the New York State Identification and Intelligence System to create the phonetic key of the source string.

phonetics. metaphone(source)

 Use the metaphone algorithm to create the phonetic key of the source string.
 Based on Lawrence Philips' Metaphone Algorithm.

phonetics. dmetaphone(source)

 Use the double methaphone algorithm to create the phonetic key of the source string.
 Based on Lawrence Philips' Metaphone Algorithm.

Contributions

All source code is hosted on GitHub. Contributions are welcome.

See the CONTRIBUTING file for more information.

LICENCE

Open Source :

Authors

Ranked by contributions.

• Zack Dibe (Zack--) *

* Original author