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Life & fun · April 26, 2016

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A collection of phonetic algorithms written in JavaScript with live examples

A collection of phonetic algorithms written in JavaScript with live examples launched on April 26, 2016 with 5 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

What it does

The phonetics module aims at gathering various algorithms whose goal is to produce an approximative phonetic representation of the given strings. This phonetic representation is then really useful when performing fuzzy matching. The algorithms presented in this page generally work for the English language (even if they somewhat extend to a variety of european languages for some of them). This said, the library also offers phonetic algorithms targeting other languages , such as French for instance. Let’s say we want to compare two fairly similar names like Catherine & Kathryn . One human would very easily agree that those two names do sound the same. Phonetic algorithms are therefore a way…from yomguithereal.github.io

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