5.11 metaphone2

The metaphone2 module provides a strategy based on Double Metaphone phonetic encoding algorithm, published by Lawrence Philips.

The module is normally loaded as follows:

load-module metaphone2;

The only available initialization parameter is

metaphone2 parameter: size number ¶

Defines the size of computed Double Metaphone codes, in characters. The default is 4.

load-module metaphone2 {
   command "metaphone2 size=16";
}