phonetics

A nodejs library for phonetic string matching which exposes: soundex, metaphone and double-metaphone algorithms.

Usage

• Soundex

const Phonetics = require('phonetics');
console.log(Phonetics.soundex('phonetic'));

output: p532

• Soundex match

const Phonetics = require('phonetics');
console.log(Phonetics.soundexMatch('phonetic', 'phonetics'));

output: true

• Metaphone

const Phonetics = require('phonetics');
console.log(Phonetics.metaphone('phonetic'));

output: FNTK

• Metaphone match

const Phonetics = require('phonetics');
console.log(Phonetics.metaphoneMatch('phonetic', 'phonetics'));

output: false

• Double Metaphone

const Phonetics = require('phonetics');
console.log(Phonetics.doubleMetaphone('phonetic'));

output: [ 'FNTK', 'FNTK' ]

• Double Metaphone match

const Phonetics = require('phonetics');
console.log(Phonetics.doubleMetaphoneMatch('phonetic', 'phonetics'));

output: false