[postgis-users] Fuzzy phonetic matching

Stephen Woodbridge stephenwoodbridge37 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 07:52:37 PST 2021


My geocode has that built in. You look at that to get some ideas. 

I recommend using double metaphone for phonetic comparison rather than soundex.  Also you can’t do whole phrases you have to do it word by word and sun the differences of each word to score the phrase. 

-Steve 

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> On Jan 5, 2021, at 3:13 AM, Shaozhong SHI <shishaozhong at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Has anyone tested phonetic matching of phrases?
> 
> Any practical example to show how it works?
> 
> Regards,
> David
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