A speech coding system operated under a known code-excited linear prediction (CELP) coding method. The CELP coding is achieved by selecting an optimum pitch vector P from an adaptive codebook and the corresponding first gain and, at the same time, selecting an optimum code vector from a sparse-stochastic codebook and the corresponding second gain. The system of the present invention is featured by special code vectors to be loaded in the sparse-stochastic codebook, which code vectors are hexagonal lattice code vectors each consisting of a zero vector with one sample set to +1 and another sample set to -1. <IMAGE>
