by Michael Kohl michi@tupalo.com, Anton Bangratz anton@tupalo.com
This is a ruby implementation of the Kölner Phonetic (Kölner Verfahren) phonetic algorithm that tries to match strings to a phonetic code. This should assist by comparing similar souding german words.
Including the library will enhance the String class of the standard library with the phonetic_code method.
require 'koelner_phonetic_encoder'
"Wikipedia".phonetic_code # => '3412'
see LICENSE