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J.D. O’Connor explains in this Pelicab the very complex manner in which the 'human noises' we call speech are produced by the vocal organs, transmitted from mouth to ear, and processed between ear and brain. These three stages define the spheres of articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics. The reader is then introduced to the symbols used in the description and classification of speech sounds and shown how these latter are organized into patterns describable in terms of phonemes and other abstract concepts.