Homophone generator

Question

Is there an algorithm for generating homophones?

Input "cypress", output = { cipress, cipres, cypres, sipress, sypress }

Answer 1

Try It.This Library will generate as you required

npm install homophonizer

Homophonizer

Answer 2

I made one. Source code here: https://github.com/evanshort73/homophone

Try it out in your browser at http://evanshort.name/homophone/

Basic idea: Download the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, and create a file of allowed phoneme substitutions and their costs. Do a depth first search of every possible substitution, backtracking when the partial result is not the beginning of any dictionary word.

Answer 3

Soundex is the reverse of this - mapping homophones to the same value. If you indexed every word in a dictionary by its Soundex value, then you could do a lookup to find all homophones of a given word.

Answer 4

There is a (and I quote..) Homophoner (stiffled giggle) here: http://yacomink.com/homophoner/

It seems to be using YUI