The SoundsLike Phonetic Tokenizer for .Net applications is a phonetic normalization function that converts any word to a numeric phonetic value. It enriches your database searches and gets around the problem of finding data that has different spellings but similar or identical pronunciation. SoundsLike provides two levels of phonetic conversion (narrow and wide) and handles over 1,000 nickname and diminutive groupings (e.g. Dick = Richard)