Source: libtext-metaphone-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Nick Morrott Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), perl-xs-dev, perl:native Standards-Version: 3.9.8 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libtext-metaphone-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libtext-metaphone-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Text-Metaphone Package: libtext-metaphone-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Suggests: libtext-soundex-perl Description: modern soundex module providing phonetic encoding of words Text::Metaphone provides the Metaphone() 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. . This module is C/XS accelerated.