NAME

Text::Metaphone - A modern soundex. Phonetic encoding of words.

SYNOPSIS

use Text::Metaphone;
$phoned_words = Metaphone('Schwern');

DESCRIPTION

C<Metaphone()> is a function whereby a string/word is broken down into a rough approximation of its english phonetic pronunciation. Very similar in concept and purpose to soundex, but much more comprehensive in its approach.

AUTHOR

Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>

WHAT IS THIS?

This is Text::Metaphone, a perl module. Please see the README that comes with this distribution.

HOW DO I INSTALL IT?

To install this module, cd to the directory that contains this README file and type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

To install this module into a specific directory, do:

perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/name/of/the/directory ...the rest is the same...

Please also read the perlmodinstall man page, if available.

WHAT EXTRAS DO I NEED?

An ANSI C compiler