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Lookalike vs Soundalike - What's the difference?

lookalike | soundalike |

As nouns the difference between lookalike and soundalike

is that lookalike is someone who physically resembles (looks like) someone else while soundalike is a sound, music recording, etc that audibly resembles another.

lookalike

English

Alternative forms

* look-alike

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who physically resembles (looks like) someone else.
    • The cousins were such close lookalikes they could impersonate each other, and sometimes did.

    soundalike

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sound, music recording, etc. that audibly resembles another.
  • * 1994 , Thomas J Smedinghoff, The Software Publishers Association Legal Guide to Multimedia
    • See chapter 5, section 2.1 regarding soundalike cases. With respect to the copyright in the sound recording, however, it would not be infringement...
  • * 2003 , Nick Nicholas, George Baloglou, An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds: Translation and Commentary
    • Somewhat more problematic for a theory of written transmission are errors where a word is replaced not by a synonym but by a soundalike .
  • * 2007 , M William Krasilovsky, Sidney Shemel, John M Gross, Jonathan Feinstein, This Business of Music
    • In recent years there has been an increase in the number of soundalike recordings...