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Class PhoneticEngine


  • public class PhoneticEngine
extends Object
    Converts words into potential phonetic representations.

    This is a two-stage process. Firstly, the word is converted into a phonetic representation that takes into account the likely source language. Next, this phonetic representation is converted into a pan-European 'average' representation, allowing comparison between different versions of essentially the same word from different languages.

    This class is intentionally immutable and thread-safe. If you wish to alter the settings for a PhoneticEngine, you must make a new one with the updated settings.

    Ported from phoneticengine.php

    Since:
    1.6
    Version:
    $Id: PhoneticEngine.java 1549875 2013-12-10 15:54:15Z ggregory $

    • Constructor Detail

      • PhoneticEngine

        public PhoneticEngine(NameType nameType,
              RuleType ruleType,
              boolean concat)
        Generates a new, fully-configured phonetic engine.
        Parameters:
        nameType - the type of names it will use
        ruleType - the type of rules it will apply
        concat - if it will concatenate multiple encodings

      • PhoneticEngine

        public PhoneticEngine(NameType nameType,
              RuleType ruleType,
              boolean concat,
              int maxPhonemes)
        Generates a new, fully-configured phonetic engine.
        Parameters:
        nameType - the type of names it will use
        ruleType - the type of rules it will apply
        concat - if it will concatenate multiple encodings
        maxPhonemes - the maximum number of phonemes that will be handled
        Since:
        1.7

    • Method Detail

      • encode

        public String encode(String input)
        Encodes a string to its phonetic representation.
        Parameters:
        input - the String to encode
        Returns:
        the encoding of the input

      • encode

        public String encode(String input,
            Languages.LanguageSet languageSet)
        Encodes an input string into an output phonetic representation, given a set of possible origin languages.
        Parameters:
        input - String to phoneticise; a String with dashes or spaces separating each word
        languageSet -
        Returns:
        a phonetic representation of the input; a String containing '-'-separated phonetic representations of the input

      • getLang

        public Lang getLang()
        Gets the Lang language guessing rules being used.
        Returns:
        the Lang in use

      • getNameType

        public NameType getNameType()
        Gets the NameType being used.
        Returns:
        the NameType in use

      • getRuleType

        public RuleType getRuleType()
        Gets the RuleType being used.
        Returns:
        the RuleType in use

      • isConcat

        public boolean isConcat()
        Gets if multiple phonetic encodings are concatenated or if just the first one is kept.
        Returns:
        true if multiple phonetic encodings are returned, false if just the first is

      • getMaxPhonemes

        public int getMaxPhonemes()
        Gets the maximum number of phonemes the engine will calculate for a given input.
        Returns:
        the maximum number of phonemes
        Since:
        1.7

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