This module implements a "sounds like" algorithm developed by Lawrence Philips which he published in the June, 2000 issue of *C/C++ Users Journal*. Double Metaphone is an improved version of Philips' original Metaphone algorithm. In contrast to the S...

The Double Metaphone search algorithm is a phonetic algorithm written by Lawrence Philips and is the second generation of his Metaphone algorithm. (Wikipedia, 2007) The Result is always an array ref containing two (mostly, but not always) identical e...

This module is a pure perl implimentation of a "sounds like" algorithm based off of Lawrence Phillips' Double Metaphone method which, was published in the June, 2000 issue of C/C++ Users Journal. The Double Metaphone algorithm produce two encodings f...

Constructors new $obj = Text::Phonetic::SUBCLASS->new(%PARAMETERS) You can pass arbitrary attributes to the constructor. The only global attribute is "unidecode" which defaults to 1 if not set. This attribute controls if non-latin characters should b...

"Metaphone()" is a function whereby a string/word is broken down into a rough approximation of its english phonetic pronunciation. Very similar in concept and purpose to soundex, but much more comprehensive in its approach....

This module provides "gender()", which takes a name and returns one of three values: 'm' for male, 'f' for female, or undef for unknown....

This module implements a "sounds like" algorithm developed by Lawrence Philips which he published in the June, 2000 issue of *C/C++ Users Journal*. Trans-Metaphone is a variation of Philips' original Metaphone algorithm. The TransMetaphone package im...

This module is a simple port of Maurice Aubrey's Text::DoubleMetaphone module to work under the TransMetaphone premise....