Re: Sounds-like algorithm?

Sarah Newman <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:41:02 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.svlug
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On 6/16/22 00:36, Steve Litt wrote:
> The only thing I don't know how to do is the sounds-alike algorithm to
> suggest other words. Has anybody made one of those? Or do you know of
> source code that's sound-alike algorithm and nothing but sounds-alike
> algorith without all sorts of X calls and other krap mixed in to
> obfuscate the actual algorithm?

Sounds kind of like minimizing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance to me.

Searching for that turned up https://github.com/pirate/spellchecker . Not sure if that will be helpful to you or not.

--Sarah