Sorry, please remove this question, I sent it to the wrong mailing list. On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 11:20 AM Jean Baro <jfb...@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?. > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > Thanks >
