Discussion on: [JS] Calculate phonetic similarity of two strings, any ideas?

That would indeed be interesting to check out. For this particular purpose though, it is beyond overkill to go that far. When the application is waiting for input (asks a question) in some cases there is an array of suspected answers. In other cases even a selection of allowed answers. If the transcription is not accurate / does not literally match any, it checks if the transcription is phonetically similar to anything expected. For example the question is 'what is your favorite color', the user answers 'yellow', transcription API returns 'hello', application assumes user said yellow. So in this case extreme accuracy or sophisticated processing is not necessary and I am satisfied with the results I have.

let similar = require('.')

/* phonetic similarity in % */
console.log(
    similar('genes lora', 'jeans laura') // 100
)

console.log(
    similar('doggy love', 'jiggly puff') // 28.57142857142857
)

console.log(
    similar('boom shaka laka', 'toom baka laka') // 40
)

console.log(
    similar('dollars', 'dollhairs') // 57.14285714285714
)

console.log(
    similar('the fuck you\'re doing', 'the duck is chewing') // 14.285714285714285
)

console.log(
    similar('completely', 'different') // 0
)

Sorry for the late response, all this sent me on a Google search spree.

Your answer(s) here on this post are interesting as well as the only useful ones. I am curious; Do you just have a conceptual understanding of these things or can you also 'live up to' / (re)produce what we're talking about in actual code? (not that I'm asking you to)

Anywho, do you want to be my friend?