The Spanish Double Metaphone Algorithm (Algoritmo del Metáfono para el Español)
  
  If you use it in academic papers you can cite this article:
  
  @inproceedings{mosquera2012towards,
  title={Towards Facilitating the Accessibility of Web 2.0 Texts through Text Normalisation},
  author={Mosquera, Alejandro and Lloret, Elena and Moreda, Paloma},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the LREC workshop: Natural Language Processing for Improving Textual Accessibility (NLP4ITA) ; Istanbul, Turkey.},
  pages={9--14},
  year={2012}}

  This script implements the Metaphone algorithm (c) 1990 by Lawrence Philips.
  It was inspired by the English double metaphone algorithm implementation by
  Andrew Collins - January 12, 2007 who claims no rights to this work 
  (http://www.atomodo.com/code/double-metaphone)
  
  This metaphone port adapted to the Spanish Language is authored 
  by Alejandro Mosquera <[email protected]> November, 2011 
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  Copyright 2011, Alejandro Mosquera <[email protected]>.  All rights reserved.

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