Post #2747531
2026-05-08 19:53 UTC
Recently had cause to use https://github.com/oubiwann/metaphone (the doublemetaphone algorithm) for trying to match NER results from an audio transcript to known/expected entities and it worked really well. First pass: exact match; second pass: (double)metaphone; third pass: rapidfuzz.
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> Double Metaphone tries to account for myriad irregularities in English of Slavic, Germanic, Celtic, Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, and other origin.
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@sobchak@programming.dev 2026-05-08 20:21
I recently noticed that Postgres has "sounds-like" functions too, which I thought was neat: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/fuzzystrmatch.html.
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@smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2026-05-08 19:57
Very cool. I'll definitely look into that, and let you know back here :D