2. The method of claim 1, wherein: the plurality of rule sets includes a suffix rule set having a multiplicity of suffix rules, and wherein the applying step iteratively compares the input text with the suffix rules in the suffix rule set to produce ending portions of the phonemic data sequence; and wherein a remainder of the input text is compared with a remainder of the plurality of rule sets to produce a remainder portion of the phonemic data sequence.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein in the applying step, suffix rules are compared with the input text beginning at a rightmost part of the input text and the comparison with each suffix rule is performed in a right to left direction with respect to the input text.