= Phonetic Text Procedures

The phonetic text (soundex) procedures allow you to compute the soundex encoding of a given string.
There is also a procedure to compare how similar two strings sound under the soundex algorithm.
All soundex procedures by default assume the used language is US English.

[source,cypher]
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CALL apoc.text.phonetic('Hello, dear User!') YIELD value
RETURN value // will return 'H436'
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[source,cypher]
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CALL apoc.text.phoneticDelta('Hello Mr Rabbit', 'Hello Mr Ribbit') // will return '4'  (very similar)
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