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Id: 41841
Status: rejected
Priority: 0/
Queue: Text-Metaphone

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Requestors: jpierce [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 20081017
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Subject: Unnecessary duplicate letters in output
Some homophones with similar orthography end up with Metaphones differentiated by inconsequential differences: Schmidt => SKMTT Schmitt => SKMT Both are pronounced the same, and it seems smart enough to collapse the two Ts of source in the second example, but not the two Ts of output in the second. The original algorithm may spec this, and there are work-arounds (y//d & String::Approx), but it seems the output would be better if it did not require additional massaging.
Sorry, I don't plan on doing any more work on Text::Metaphone besides bug fixing nor changing the algorithm. You're welcome to fork the module and write one whose goal is improved speech parsing, or try one of the existing ones on CPAN. http://search.cpan.org/search?m=all&q=metaphone