Abstract: In general terms the present invention is a method for the coded transmission of voice signals. A voice signal is digitized and supplied to an encoder and the estimated input signal is subtracted from the digitized voice signal. The remaining remainder signal is normed in that it is divided by its estimated intensity. The norm signal which has arisen as a result thereof is supplied to a quantizer/coder. The output signal thereof is transmitted via a channel and is supplied to a decoder and is also subsequently supplied to an inverse quantizer whose output signal is multiplied by the estimated intensity. The signal that proceeded from the multiplication of the estimated intensity by the output signal of the inverse quantizer is added to the estimated signal, as a result whereof the control signal for a predictor is formed which generates the estimated signal and the decoding ensues analogously to the coding.