You can also look at Phonetix which has many implementations of this... 
 
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From: Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Sent: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:41:30 -0500
Subject: Re: SoundEx


On Jan 18, 2006, at 4:20 AM, Christian Reuschling wrote: 
> yes, look at the 'contributions' link at the lucene-homepage. 
> The 'Phonetix'-project provides an implementation for soudex, 
> metaphor and double-metaphor. Simply use their analyzer. I am 
> not sure what the behaviour is in the case of wildcards. Have 
> anyone an answer? 
 
You can always index the original term in the same position as an encoded 
(soundex, metaphone, etc) term, or into a different field. 
 
To be really clever, I suppose, you'd want to enumerate all terms that match 
the wildcard expression, then look up the ones that "sound like" those. 
 
  Erik 
 
> 
> regards 
> 
> Christian 
> 
> 
> Steven Pannell wrote: 
>> Hi, 
>> Does anyone know if there is a SoundEx analyzer implementation >> available 
>> for 
>> lucene??? 
>> thanks. 
>> Steve, 
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