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From: dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: phonetic code wanted
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Date: 12 Dec 87 18:03:00 GMT
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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.

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