Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner From: dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: phonetic code wanted Message-ID: <174400088@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 12 Dec 87 18:03:00 GMT Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #N:uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:174400088:000:780 Nf-From: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner Dec 12 12:03:00 1987 Does anyone out there have code for turning text into phonetics? Either code that takes a word and turns it into a string of specially defined phonetics (ala Speechlab) or that makes a kind of hash code for sound out of it (ala WriteNow's spelling checker) would be nice. I say ``code'' rather than ``algorithm'', because I suspect a lot of the work would be in developing letter combination->sound tables. I'm looking for this because I'm developing an online phonebook, and would like to be able to say ``sounds like'' when requesting a name. (After that, I can add full charades support :-)) Mail me responses; I'll summarize. ---- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu UUCP: ihnp4!uiucuxc!dorner IfUMust: (217) 333-3339