This project contains algorithms to generate the phonetic encoding of words in three languages: French, German and Italian. It also contains a reverse phonetic encoding that can generate a new word with a similar pronunciation.
Phonetic encoding is an algorithm to transform a word into a shorter word that has the same pronunciation (e.g. "EDOUARD" to "EDWAR"). The algorithm is different for each language as it accounts for the specifics of that language's pronunciation.
Two words with the same pronunciation are likely to have the same encoding. (e.g. 'MEIER' -> 'MEYER' and 'MEILLER' -> 'MEYER')
The reverse algorithm is stochastic. It generates a new word from a phonetic encoding. The reverse encoding has a similar pronunciation and the encoding of the reverse encoding is the initial encoding (e.g. "OBY" -reverse-> "OBBI" -encoding-> "OBY")
You can get the phonetic encoding by using the phonem method and you can generate a new word by using the inversePhonem method.
from phonem import phonem, inversePhonem
name = "typisch"
pho = phonem(name, "de")
inversepho = inversePhonem(pho, "de")This project is a translation and extension of Talisman, a Javascript library (it includes encoding for german and french).