[Aspell-user] sounds-alike?

[Jon Oringer]

I am developing an server side perl script that needs to find all words similar to a certain work...

 

so if I input the word "Brooke", i would like to receive all the soundsalike words - like "Bruke" Bruk" etc

if I input Perl, i would like to get back "Purl" and "Pearl"

 

the problem is that if I input Brooke into Aspell, i will get nothing - because its the correct spelling!

 

is there any way i can force output of all soundsalike words?

im not really building an app that needs spell checking - but it seems as though i can use aspell for my solution.

 

my next solution was to get the dictionary in text format - and build the soundex keys for each word - so i can do my own soundex matching..

but i cant seem to get the dictionary for Aspell in a text readable format..

 

any suggestions?

 

thanks!

 

Jon Oringer

SurfSecret Software

http://www.surfsecret.com