Phonetic Encoders

Sun Master Index provides extensible phonetic encoding capabilities, which are typically used to retrieve records with similar field values from the database for matching. By default, several phonetic encoders are defined to be used in the master index application. Typically, Soundex is used to encode first names (or SoundexFR for first names in the France national domain) and NYSIIS to encode last names. When using the Sun Match Engine, you can specify different types of phonetic encoders, such as Metaphone, Double Metaphone, and Refined Soundex. When you specify the fields in the standardization configuration to be phonetically encoded, you can select one of the encoders defined in the phonetic encoders section.