metaphone

metaphone

Metaphone algorithm in JavaScript. No cruft. Real fast.

Installation

npm:

$ npm install metaphone

Component:

$ component install wooorm/metaphone

Bower:

$ bower install metaphone

Usage

var metaphone = require('metaphone');

metaphone("hiccups"); // "HKKPS"
metaphone("detestable"); // "TTSTBL"
metaphone("vileness"); // "FLNS"
metaphone("detestable") === metaphone("tetestble"); // true

With stemmer:

var metaphone = require('metaphone');
var stemmer = require('stemmer');

metaphone(stemmer("hiccups")); // HKKP
metaphone(stemmer("detestable")); // TTST
metaphone(stemmer("vileness")); // FL

metaphone(stemmer("detestable")) === metaphone(stemmer("tetest")); // true

CLI

Install:

$ npm install --global metaphone

Use:

Usage: metaphone [options] string

Fast Metaphone implementation

Options:

  -h, --help           output usage information
  -v, --version        output version number

Usage:

# output phonetics of given value
$ metaphone detestable
# TTSTBL

# output phonetics from stdin
$ echo "vileness" | metaphone
# FLNS

Benchmark

On a MacBook Air, it runs about 136,000 op/s, which is a bit faster than natural.

           metaphone — this module
  136 op/s » op/s * 1,000

           natural — more options
  113 op/s » op/s * 1,000

           Katee/metafone — pretty buggy
   45 op/s » op/s * 1,000

License

MIT © Titus Wormer