Metaphone

Metaphone is a Python library that provides implementations of the Metaphone and Double Metaphone phonetic algorithms. These algorithms are designed to index words by their English pronunciation, offering an improvement over Soundex for matching similar-sounding words and names, even with variations in spelling. The Double Metaphone algorithm further refines this by accounting for spelling peculiarities from various languages and can return both a primary and a secondary phonetic code. The current version is 0.6, and the project has a very slow release cadence, with the last PyPI update in 2016 and the latest GitHub release in 2020.