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Metaphone is a much better alternative to Soundex for phonetic indexing of English words. Phonetic indexing is an interesting concept, and inspired by Metaphone, I was able to write algorithms for Malayalam[1] and Kannada[2], two Dravidian (Indic) languages. They work well for searches and suggestions.

[1] https://github.com/knadh/mlphone

[2] https://github.com/knadh/knphone

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I've tried using Soundex in practice, and I found it to be too coarse-grained to be really useful. Metaphone is much better, even if it's more complex.

Thank you, I am a frequent user of your olam dictionary. Is there a JavaScript port of mlphone available ?

Thanks :) There isn't one in JS, but it should be really easy to port.

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