1. metaphone - Noun
2. Metaphone - Proper noun
Metaphone
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A phonetic algorithm for indexing words by their English pronunciation.
metaphone (plural metaphones)
(linguistics) Either of two or more phonemes that have meaning when used together
Common misconceptions There are a couple of misconceptions about the Metaphone algorithms that should be addressed. Source: Internet
Developers can also now set switches in code to cause the algorithm to encode Metaphone keys 1) taking non-initial vowels into account, as well as 2) encoding voiced and unvoiced consonants differently. Source: Internet
Double Metaphone main The Double Metaphone phonetic encoding algorithm is the second generation of this algorithm. Source: Internet
It makes a number of fundamental design improvements over the original Metaphone algorithm. Source: Internet
It should be noted, however, that this table does not constitute a complete description of the original Metaphone algorithm, and the algorithm cannot be coded correctly from it. Source: Internet
Metaphone 3 A professional version was released in October 2009, developed by the same author, Lawrence Philips. Source: Internet