double-metaphone

Double metaphone algorithm.

API

Install:

npm install double-metaphone

Use:

var doubleMetaphone = require('double-metaphone');

doubleMetaphone('michael'); //=> ['MKL', 'MXL']
doubleMetaphone('crevalle'); //=> ['KRFL', 'KRF']
doubleMetaphone('Filipowitz'); //=> ['FLPTS', 'FLPFX']
doubleMetaphone('Xavier'); //=> ['SF', 'SFR']
doubleMetaphone('delicious'); //=> ['TLSS', 'TLXS']
doubleMetaphone('acceptingness'); //=> ['AKSPTNNS', 'AKSPTNKNS']
doubleMetaphone('allegrettos'); //=> ['ALKRTS', 'AKRTS']

With stemmer:

var doubleMetaphone = require('double-metaphone');
var stemmer = require('stemmer');

doubleMetaphone(stemmer('acceptingness')); //=> [ 'AKSPTNK', 'AKSPTNK' ]
doubleMetaphone(stemmer('allegrettos')); //=> [ 'ALKRT', 'AKRT' ]

CLI

Install:

npm install -g double-metaphone

Use:

Usage: double-metaphone [options] <words...>

Double Metaphone algorithm

Options:

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

Usage:

# output phonetics
$ double-metaphone michael
# MKL MXL

# output phonetics from stdin
$ echo 'Xavier' | double-metaphone
# SF  SFR

# with stemmer
$ echo 'acceptingness' | stemmer | double-metaphone
# AKSPTNK AKSPTNK

Related

• metaphone — Fast Metaphone implementation
• soundex-code — Fast Soundex implementation
• stemmer — Porter Stemmer algorithm
• dice-coefficient — Sørensen–Dice coefficient
• levenshtein-edit-distance — Levenshtein edit distance
• syllable — Syllable count in an English word

License

MIT © Titus Wormer