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During my graduate degree, I was looking into phonetic search, and a lot of the papers I stumbled across were using an expanded version of soundex called Phonix[1] as their basis of new algorithms. However, I had a lot of trouble finding an implementation I could use, so I implemented it in Python.

After that I build a search engine programme that would look up swear words that were phonetically similar to input terms, as I thought that my fellow students might get a laugh looking up their own names. In the end, neither Phonix, double metaphone nor Soundex really produced any funny results.

plugs:

- Blogpost: http://olsgaard.dk/phonixpy-phonetic-name-search-in-python.h...

- Github repo: https://github.com/olsgaard/phonetic_search

[1] Gadd, T. N. “‘Fisching Fore Werds’: Phonetic Retrieval of Written Text in Information Systems.” Program 22, no. 3 (1988): 222–37.