Formant like?

[Rob Hukin]

Mark wrote;

>Formants are pieces of sounds you make when you speak, and a
>formant filter is a filter that is designed to obtain those sounds.

More accurately, formants are vocal-tract resonances (peaks in the
frequency response of the vocal tract). Speech sounds can be characterised
by the position or movement of formant frequencies and to a lesser extent
formant bandwidths. Five formants is plently - three is often enough...

rob.