soundalike

soundalike

See also: sound-alike

English

Etymology

From sound +‎ alike, perhaps modelled on lookalike.

Noun

soundalike (plural soundalikes)

1. 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...