The FFT module 1018 performs Fast Fourier transform on a portion of the digitized voice signal of each frame in a time domain to a frequency domain. As a result of FFT, an approximate power spectrum of the portion of the digitized voice signal over the corresponding frame is obtained. The signal power is clustered in a relatively small number of locations in the frequency spectrum, which correspond to the speech formants. The fine fluctuations are due in part to numerical artifacts but these do not affect the dominant frequencies and hence, no further technique is applied to reduce the artifacts.