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24 alternatives to I enhanced Soundex to correctly handle multi-word strings
Hello HN. I built Flookup Data Wrangler, a powerful Google Sheets add-on for data cleaning without writing single line of code. Traditional Soundex is designed for single words like "John" and "Jonny", making data cleaning comparisons between such strings straightforward. However, typical Soundex outputs cannot be used to handle multi-word or reordered string comparisons like "John Doe" vs "Doe Jonny", as this would produce inaccurate results. To address this, I modified the Soundex algorithm to support multi-word and reordered strings by adding a helper function that re-encodes the output…
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Flookup▲88Fuzzy match, highlight and remove duplicates from your data
2019 · getflookup.com · its alternatives →
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I created an add-on for Google Sheets called Flookup, and it comes both as a free version and a VERY AFFORDABLE paid version. At its core, Flookup is a fuzzy matching add-on that helps you manage text that is less than a 100% match. Beyond that it can be used to: 1. Search for and match data regardless of whether it contains typos. 2. Highlight and delete duplicates duplicates even if the data has mismatched text. 3. Calculate the percentage similarity between strings. 4. Extract unique values from any column based on percentage similarity. 5. Sum and find the average of numbers based on…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Flookup 2.0▲96Fuzzy match, highlight and remove duplicates from your data
2021 · getflookup.com · its alternatives →
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Fast voice-to-text on 92 languages
2023 · lingvanex.com · its alternatives →
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Descript▲869Text-based audio editor and automated transcription
2017 · descript.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! It has been about three years since I launched this current iteration of my Google Sheets add-on called Flookup. I'm a solo developer and, currently, I handle absolutely everything to do with Flookup from writing code, replying support emails and even marketing. It is a lot of work but very satisfying because I get to see, first hand, how helpful it has been to my userbase. Before Flookup was launched, there was only one prominent Google Sheets add-on that could be used for data cleaning (to a certain degree) but, luckily for me, that add-on had left a gap in functionality that I…
2022 · its alternatives →
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An intuitive 64-step drum sequencer progressive web app built using React, Redux, and Tone.js
2021 · sequencer64.com · its alternatives →
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Free & fast alternative to Wispr Flow. Contribute to zachlatta/freeflow development by creating an account on GitHub.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I am excited to announce a new tool for music producers and audio enthusiasts - a music audio search engine. With just a simple description of the groove you're looking for, our semantic search engine will output the most similar audio in seconds. I used the Freesound.org API to upload over 3,000 grooves to MongoDB, and combined all the relevant data such as tags, title, description, BPM, etc. into OpenAI's Text-Davinci to generate a unique description of each sound. I then embedded these descriptions using the Ada Embeddings Model and inserted them into Pinecone DB vector database, making…
2023 · muzic-sage.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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superwhisper▲274Extremely accurate, AI powered voice-to-text for macOS
2023 · superwhisper.com · its alternatives →
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Fuzzy match, merge and remove duplicates by text similarity
2025 · getflookup.com · its alternatives →
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If you already know what bytebeat is, you don't need an explanation. If not, check my project :) Here is how it looks: SELECT mono(output( arraySum(x -> 1 / 6 * running_envelope(30 * (1 + x / 6), time, 0.05 * x, 0.005, lfo(0, 0.25, sine_wave, time / 8), 0.1) * sine_wave(time * 80 * exp2(x / 3)), range(12)))) FROM table; To check how it sounds, find the examples in the repository https://github.com/ClickHouse/NoiSQL
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Vocalizer.io▲156An audio-based web accessibility tool for pronouncing names.
2016 · vocalizer.io · its alternatives →
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GoWhisper▲150Cross-platform, privacy-first audio transcription app
2023 · gowhisper.io · its alternatives →
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Learn to parse, manage, and manipulate multibyte PHP strings
2022 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →
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Flookup 3.0▲10Fuzzy lookup, merge and remove duplicates by text similarity
2024 · getflookup.com · its alternatives →
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Turn the Web into audio using realistic voices
2020 · getwoord.com · its alternatives →
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Audio file transcription, time stamping and annotation
2021 · datasaur.ai · its alternatives →
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Unlimited Sheets▲110Hey Hacker news! This is my first launch here and I’m glad to present you: Unlimited Sheets. Let me show you why Unlimited Sheets was created ^^ Problem Google Sheets is a great tool. Actually, if you work from the Internet, it is one of the most used ones or at least in my field: SEO. The problem with Google Sheets is that it is very limited when we are talking about functionalities related to the web (or even SEO). There are a lot of good templates trying to solve specific problems. Do you need to scrape something? Here’s one template. Do you need to extract the search volume data from a…
2022 · unlimitedsheets.com · its alternatives →
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Took a stab at building my own string diffing JS package. I built an interactive demo for TypeIt’s website (https://typeitjs.com/build-your-own) a while back. The approach I took to handle user input necessitated a way to calculate the difference between the versions of a user’s text input. I searched around for a package to help me out and found a couple of good ones (like fast-diff), but I either didn’t really like their API or didn’t want to take on a huge new dependency. Instead, I thought I’d give it a shot myself (famous last words). I dove into it having no real formal…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Here is a tool I built initially for myself to help with my German and Greek language studies. It started as a hack for creating Anki cards from native language audio. It extracts the words, finds their base forms (lemmas) and groups the examples by the lemma. At some point I realised that I have a transcription with word level timestamps that opens a lot of other opportunities. So I added a mode to click the first and last word in the transcript and it starts looping with the right gap and repeat count. Another feature I use a lot is selecting an audio fragment, sending a predefined prompt…
Jun 2026 · lingochunk.com · its alternatives →
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Perform many string operations to clipboard content
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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