Sorry, please remove this question, I sent it to the wrong mailing list.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 11:20 AM Jean Baro <jfbaro@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello people,
Please, I am working on a PoC for Real-time Person Identification, and one of the critical aspects of it is to support both minor misspelling and phonetic variations of First, Middle, and Last name. Like HarinGton == HarrinBton or RaphEAl == RafAEl. It's working for longer names, but it's a bit more imprecise for names like Lee and John. I am using Double Metaphone through dmetaphone() and dmetaphone_alt() in PostgreSQL 13.3 (Supabase.io). And although I appreciate Double Metaphone it returns a (too?) short string as the phonetic representation compared to metaphone(string, length). metaphone() has parameters to make the resulting phonetic representation longer. I investigated dmetaphone() and couldn't find anything other than the default function. Is there a way of making dmetaphone() and dmetaphone_alt() return a longer phonetic representation similar to metaphone()'s, but with a ALT variation?.
