phonetics

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

Usage

- Soundex

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

output: p532

- Soundex match

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

output: true

- Metaphone

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

output: FNTK

- Metaphone match

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

output: false

- Double Metaphone

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

output: [ 'FNTK', 'FNTK' ]

- Double Metaphone match

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

output: false`