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Soundex is a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound, as pronounced in
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English. The goal is for names with the same pronunciation to be encoded to the
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same representation so that they can be matched despite minor differences in
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spelling. Soundex is the most widely known of all phonetic algorithms and is
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often used (incorrectly) as a synonym for "phonetic algorithm". Improvements to
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Soundex are the basis for many modern phonetic algorithms. (Wikipedia, 2007)
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Text::Soundex implements the original soundex algorithm developed by Robert
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Russell and Margaret Odell, patented in 1918 and 1922, as well as a variation
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called "American Soundex" used for US census data, and current maintained by the
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National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
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The soundex algorithm may be recognized from Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer
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Programming. The algorithm described by Knuth is the NARA algorithm.
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WWW: https://metacpan.org/release/Text-Soundex
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