For the purpose of identifying [possible] bot-generated usernames. Suppose you have a username like "bilbomoothof" .. it may be nonsense, but it still contains pronouncable sounds and so appears h...

I want to code the Metaphone 3 algorithm myself. Is there a description? I know the source code is available for sale but that is not what I am looking for.

I wanna get pronunciation of short messages using python. For example, message 'text' should be transformed to 'tekst' and message 'привет' (russian) should be transformed to 'privet'. I have trie...

I am trying to save the pronunciation of a French word into a .wav or .mp3 file. I was wondering if there was anywhere on the Google Translate API (since it has a pronunciation functionality) tha...

I want to compare strings phonetically in my android app. But the special case here is, I want to compare Indian language words written in English. For example, I want to check if "Edhu" "Adhu" "Ye...

I am get stuck in middle of Solr. I need only most popular words w.r.t query. I have used phonetic filter on both index and query but here the problem is that it is giving too many terms. I need on...

I am using solr for spell checking/ query correction. I have added solr.PhoneticFilterFactory and solr.NGramFilterFactory in fieldType to perform spell checking. It is working fine but here the pro...

I am trying to insert spaces into a string of IPA characters, e.g. to turn ɔ̃wɔ̃tɨ into ɔ̃ w ɔ̃ t ɨ. Using split/join was my first thought: s = ɔ̃w̃ɔtɨ s.split('').join(' ') #=> ̃ ɔ w ̃ ɔ p t ɨ...

I would like to download an English dictionary -- not just a word list -- in a structured format such as TXT, XML, or SQL. Specifically, I need phonetic pronunciation and parts of speech (d...

I'm trying to come up with an implicit spell checker that will use the mappings of input words to some kind of more general phonetic representation to account for typos that might occur, basically ...

Soundex seems to be implemented in some DBMS's, but have there been any algorithmic improvements that are definitively better than the current implementation of Soundex?

Given two strings text1 and text2: public SOMEUSABLERETURNTYPE Compare(string text1, string text2) { // DO SOMETHING HERE TO COMPARE } Examples: First String: StackOverflow Second String: ...

How could i get a sound similarity "rating" for a string written in one language with another string in another language: i.e an algorithm that will identify that "David Letterman" and "דוד לטרמן"...

I'm trying to write a program that will switch any letter of the alphabet (upper or lower cases) into the Phontic alphabet. For example, If I enter "A" or "a" my program will give me (change it to)...

I am trying to store text data to lucene. The search should be with phonetic! Where should I add a phonetic filter? Lucene.Net.Store.Directory dir = FSDirectory.Open(new DirectoryInfo(Applicatio...

I would like to programmatically check whether a string can be pronounced or needs to be spelled out. For example, internationalization can be read out, but i18n cannot, nor can hhdirgxzf. I can ...

I would like to translate phonetic text (IPA) to synthesized speech. No TTS software that I have found can do this and I can't find any other software either. Any tip? Is this even doable in ...

I'm looking for an SDK that would allow me to have speech recognition on a OSX application. I already have a working code for windows using sapi, to get speech recognition info from an audio file,...

I'm drawing F1/F2 vowel graph (an example is here). Each vowel has several points/values, and I'd like to draw an ellipse around the points, so that: ellipse covers at least 80% of points (ie. in...

Metaphone and Soundex are phonetic algorithms for indexing strings by their English pronunciation. Have you ever used functions metaphone() or soundex() that are present in the standard PHP librar...

I have a severe to profound deafness from a very early age but luckily I can speak like a normal person. Verbal communication has always been difficult for me due to my impaired speech recognition ...

Say you want to take CMU's phonetic data set input that looks like this: ABERRATION AE2 B ER0 EY1 SH AH0 N ABERRATIONAL AE2 B ER0 EY1 SH AH0 N AH0 L ABERRATIONS AE2 B ER0 EY1 SH AH0 N Z ABERT AE1 ...

Are there any alternatives to The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, commercial or open source?