NAME

Text::Metaphone - A modern soundex.  Phonetic encoding of words.


SYNOPSIS

  use Text::Metaphone;
  $phoned_words = Metaphone('Schwern');
  

DESCRIPTION

C<Metaphone()> 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 <schwern@pobox.com>


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