.. currentmodule:: pythainlp.soundex

pythainlp.soundex
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The :class:`pythainlp.soundex` is soundex for Thai.

Modules
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.. autofunction:: soundex
.. autofunction:: lk82
.. autofunction:: udom83
.. autofunction:: metasound
.. autofunction:: prayut_and_somchaip

References
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.. [#metasound] Snae & Brückner. (2009). `Novel Phonetic Name Matching Algorithm with a Statistical
        Ontology for Analysing Names Given in Accordance with Thai Astrology <https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3983/963e87ddc6dfdbb291099aa3927a0e3e4ea6.pdf>`_.

.. [#udom83] Wannee Udompanich (1983). Search Thai sound-alike string using homonymic approach.
        Master Thesis. Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

.. [#lk82] วิชิต หล่อจีระชุณห์กุล และ เจริญ คุวินทร์พันธุ์. `โปรแกรมการสืบค้นคำไทยตามเสียงอ่าน (Thai Soundex) <http://guru.sanook.com/1520/>`_.

.. [#prayut_and_somchaip] Prayut Suwanvisat, Somchai Prasitjutrakul. Thai-English Cross-Language Transliterated Word Retrieval using Soundex Technique. In 1998 [cited 2022 Sep 8]. Available from: https://www.cp.eng.chula.ac.th/~somchai/spj/papers/ThaiText/ncsec98-clir.pdf