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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 11 Apr 1994 12:37:47 MST
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 13:43:10 -0600 (CST)
From: Chris Tenaglia - 257-8765 <TENAGLIA@MIS.MCW.EDU>
Subject: Name/Word generator
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> From: IN%"dbulman@ACM.ORG" "David Bulman" 11-APR-1994 13:21:32.86
> To: IN%"icon-group@cs.arizona.edu"
> Subj: Generate Names?
The icon library has soundex routines. Usually you feed a string to
soundex to get a string/number. But I think it could be used as a
comparison tool. I think phonetic spelling then is more important
that accurate english spelling. To keep things unique you could use
a table() with soundex keys to eliminate sound-a-likes. Then you
might be able to get more words by having it randomly or alternately
choose to begin with a vowel or consonant. Also dipthongs can be
considered, but carfully. sh, th, ch, br, bl,... and oi, io, ia, oo,
oa, ai,...
I have a similar tool, password generator. It also includes numerics.
These are distributed by paper and phone to I don't include letters or
numbers that look too much alike. We leave out O and 0, and 1, i, and
l. This is useful if you have foreigners who have trouble discerning
certain sounds especially over the phone.
Chris Tenaglia (System Manager) | "The past explained,
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> A friend of mine has a problem I'd like to try to solve with an
> Icon program.
> The problem is to generate very many unique 5 character names,
> which should be pronounceable in English, but each should sound
> different from all the others. I imagine that taking advantage
> of the fact that a word with alternating consonants (C) and
> vowels (V) is likely to be pronounceable, but probably bringing
> Soundex into play would help too.
> So, the problem sort of has 3 parts:
> 1. What makes a pronounceable name?
> 2. How can I tell if two names sound alike?
> 3. How should I attack this in Icon?
> Dave
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