Soundex (or similar algorithm) search

[Luis Fco. Ramriez Daza Glez]

Hi all

 

We need to add “Sounds like….” Functionality to our index and I’m looking for 
any guidance for where to start.

I read that lucene does not support Soundex directly, but it supports 
Dictionary that must be almost the same.

Also found that for Java some people have contributed some Analyzers/code to 
use some kind of “sounds like”: metaphone, double-metaphne, etc.

Are any of those contributions available in the NET version, or do I have to do 
it manually by implementing the algorithm and/or the analyzers/tokenizers/etc?

 

Thanks

Luis