#phonetic #metaphone #nysiis

phonetics

Phonetic algorithms for encoding and comparing strings

1 unstable release

Uses new Rust 2024

0.1.0 Mar 31, 2025

#828 in Algorithms

Download history 47/week @ 2025-03-25 71/week @ 2025-04-01

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MIT license

23KB
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PHONETICS

Phonetics is a Rust library that implements the NYSIIS (Phonetic Search) algorithm from stratch.

Inspiration

This was a learning projects based on a twitter thread. Related Links -

  1. https://x.com/arpit_bhayani/status/1906434075872923961
  2. https://x.com/aakashb_95/status/1906543910060732429

NYSIIS Reference Used -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Identification_and_Intelligence_System

Metaphone Reference Used -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone

Licence

MIT

Dependencies

~3.5–9MB
~78K SLoC