Phonetic search capability

[foyzulkarim]

Create a phonetic index of the Arabic and the English and expose that through the search. If someone searches using qalu, it will match qaloo, yaqooloo etc forms of the same word. It will take the English form and automatically detect the appropriate arabic form and search using that arabic form.

[oazabir]

I am curious to know your algorithm. Let me know how you plan to create the phonetic index.

[foyzulkarim]

I had an opportunity to do some R&D on a CMU Sphinx and Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition (AASR). My plan is to get help using these two libraries and come up with an algorithm. I also tested Microsoft's speech recognition library but it is not good enough and we can't change that library according to our need.

[oazabir]

Excellent. some time back I saw this: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/26880/Arabic-Soundex

May be this will help.

[foyzulkarim]

Should the software be able to detect the words from voice?

[oazabir]

No, that will be a never ending research project.

Soundex isn't about voice recognition. It converts arabic words into a representation that is same for different spelling of the same word. So, qalu, qaloo, qaaloo all will result in say q0l1. This way you can take user's incorrect spelling and find similar matches.

[oazabir]

https://github.com/oazabir/Quran/wiki/Database-Design

[foyzulkarim]

I have perform some practices on the Soundex and Arabic-Soundex codes. Is there any existing GUI or mockup for this feature? Or should I propose a detailed feature of this?

[oazabir]

There's no page now. Please add a new say Search.aspx and implement your code there. We will later on merge it with the homepage.

[oazabir]

Hi, how are you doing with the search?

[foyzulkarim]

I paused working for last couple of days. Sorry. Will resume by today.

[oazabir]

This issue is now abandoned as the work will not be continued.