How to check if two Strings are approximately equal?

Question

I\'m making a chat responder for a game and i want know if there is a way you can compare two strings and see if they are approximatley equal to each other for example:

Answer 1

I found a few projects that do text to phonemes translations, don't know which one is best

• http://mary.dfki.de/
• http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~tpl/asp/source/Phoneme.java
• http://java.dzone.com/announcements/announcing-phonemic-10