The present invention relates to a method and device for improving concealment of frame erasure caused by frames of an encoded sound
signal erased during transmission from an
encoder (106) to a decoder (110), and for accelerating
recovery of the decoder after non erased frames of the encoded sound
signal have been received. For that purpose, concealment /
recovery parameters are determined in the
encoder or decoder. When determined in the
encoder (106), the concealment /
recovery parameters are transmitted to the decoder (110). In the decoder, erasure frame concealment and decoder recovery is conducted in response to the concealment / recovery parameters. The concealment / recovery parameters may be selected from the group consisting of: a
signal classification parameter, an
energy information parameter and a phase information parameter. The determination of the concealment / recovery parameters comprises classifying the successive frames of the encoded sound signal as unvoiced, unvoiced transition, voiced transition, voiced, or onset, and this classification is determined on the basis of at least a part of the following parameters: a
normalized correlation parameter, a spectral tilt parameter, a signal-to-
noise ratio parameter, a
pitch stability parameter, a relative frame
energy parameter, and a
zero crossing parameter.