home_of_phone

Home Of Phone

Test how similar two words sound to each other.

This library makes use of the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'home_of_phone'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install home_of_phone

Usage

sim_hilarity_sir_vice = HomeOfPhone.new # preloads large phoneme dictionary
sim_hilarity_sir_vice.similarity("joking", "choking")
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# options modify how similarity is calculated
sim_hilarity_sir_vice.similarity("joking", "choking", {use_rhyme_boost: false, use_phoneme_accents: false})

sim_hilarity_sir_vice_too = HomeOfPhone.new(preload_phonemes: false) # doesn't load phoneme dictionary yet
sim_hilarity_sir_vice_too.similarity("joking", "choking") # loads dictionary at this point

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/home_of_phone/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request