I have done a bit of searching looking for an example implementation of a phonetic search using Hibernate Search and to this point my searches have been fruitless. I have found some information on the Solr website but I think I am missing something. I have been able to get the PhoneticsFilterFactory class to do it's thing and create the Phonetic indexes in Lucene but I am not sure how to go about creating a search to use this index as I have been unable to find any Phonetic Analyzers in the solr packages, am I missing something?

On a side note I am considering buying Hibernate Search in Action, is any of this covered there?

As is always the case after you post to a forum you find the missing piece.

Analyzer analyzer = fullTextSession.getSearchFactory().getAnalyzer("customanalyzer"); was what I was looking for.