Formant emphasis in celp speech coding

A speech-coding device includes a fixed codebook, an adaptive codebook, a short-term enhancement circuit, and a summing circuit. The short-term enhancement circuit connects an output of the fixed codebook to a summing circuit. The summing circuit adds an adaptive codebook contribution to a fixed codebook contribution. The short-term enhancement circuit can also be connected to a synthesis filter to emphasize the spectral formants in an encoder and a decoder.