NAME Text::Metaphone - A modern soundex. Phonetic encoding of words. SYNOPSIS use Text::Metaphone; $phoned_words = Metaphone('Schwern'); DESCRIPTION C 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 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