Soundex Phonetic vs. String-Matching

Soundex Links

Online-Demo

1. Soundex Calculator http://www.brixtonhealth.com/soundex.html
2. SoundEx Converter Form http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/SoundEx1/SoundEx1.htm
3. Soundex program http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MA/MARKM/Text-Soundex-3.02.tar.gz
4. Surname to Soundex Converter http://www.geocities.com/heartland/hills/3916/soundex.html
5. SoundEx Converter http://www.frontiernet.net/~rjacob/soundex.htm
6. SoundEx Converter Form http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/SoundEx1/SoundEx1.htm
7. Soundex Surname Variants http://www.kindredkonnections.com/cgi-bin/sndxnams?-1+0+queryForm+English

General information about the Soundex-Algorithm

1. http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/codec/
2. http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/census/soundex.html
3. http://www.ironrangeresearchcenter.org/genealogy/help/soundex/
4. http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21087113
5. http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/nausa/soundex.htm

Code-Samples for the Soundex-Algorithm

1. Soundex in C++ http://www.levenshtein.de/levenshtein_links.htm
2. Soundex in PERL, Java Script, VB, C http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/SoundEx1/SoundEx1.htm
3. Soundex in tcl http://web.uvic.ca/~erempel/tcl/Soundex/Soundex.html

Alternatives to Soundex-Algorithm

1. Caverphone http://caversham.otago.ac.nz/files/working/ctp060902.pdf
2. Metaphone http://aspell.sourceforge.net/metaphone/
3. Doble metaphone http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/codec/
4. Q-Gram based algorithm http://www.codeproject.com/string/dmetaphone6.asp
5. NYSIIS http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/nysiis.html
6. Levenshtein algorithm http://www.levenshtein.net