Metaphone package for Go

A port of metaphone module from the Natural javascript package: https://github.com/NaturalNode/natural/blob/master/lib/natural/phonetics/metaphone.js

Also see the wikipedia article on metaphone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone

Installation

go install github.com/sanjayc77/metaphone 

This will install the metaphone package.

Example

import "metaphone"

st := metaphone.Process("phonetics")  // => FNTKS

Tests

go test metaphone

TODO

Precompile the regular expressions for faster processing.