Quote Originally Posted by Medved View Post
I think aspiration is this energetic exhalation like an H sound after one of the consonants:
Yes, it is. What is even more important, when an aspirated consonant is followed by a vowel, the aspiration results in time delay between the consonant release and the vowel voicing. Other words, the vocal chord vibration does not start immediately after the consonant is released.

But I agree with what you said about the [h] exhalation.