I have gone through soundex phonetic algorithm. There is another algorithm on Wikipedia called "Reverse Soundex" which is an improved version of soundex. I couldn't find anything about its implementation. Can you point me to the implementation of this algorithm or any pre-built function in Python.

CodePudding user response：

You do not have implementation details since "Reverse Soundex" is very similar to the original algorithm. as Wikipedia states: "Reverse Soundex" prefixes the last letter of the name instead of the first. So the algorithm will be exactly like the original (again from Wiki) but stage 1 will be something like:

1. Retain the last letter of the name and drop all other occurrences of a, e, i, o, u, y, h, w.

So for example Robert will now be t616 (instead of R163), no 3 since we remove the T at the end.

You can also find some more documentation here, including some information on when to use this algorithm variation. And if you manage to create a setup you can test your algorithm implementation with this.

Note: You can find a Python implementation of the original Soundex algorithm in the Fuzzy lib.