The invention relates to a method for generating a dictionary for the vector quantisation of a signal. Said method comprises a step (10) of the statistical analysis of driving vectors representing the signal determining a finished set of code vectors (CITER) representing said driving vectors. The inventive method is characterised in that it also comprises a step (3) of modifying the finished set of code vectors in order to impose a minimum distance between the code vectors modified two-by-two, the set of said modified code vectors forming the dictionary.
