AlignmentPath           Canonical sequence-alignment APIs
BackendKind             Canonical backend inspection API
MetaphoneVariant        Phonetic encoders and comparisons
Scorer                  Python-style pair, batch, selection, and cdist
                        APIs
SubstitutionMatrix      Substitution matrices for sequence alignment
dtw                     Dynamic Time Warping distances
keyboard                Keyboard-aware substitution matrices
lcs_length              Additional native string similarities
stride_backend          Inspect stride-align SIMD dispatch
stride_levenshtein      String distance and similarity
stride_smith_waterman   Sequence-alignment scores
