<p>A voice coding apparatus includes a pitch detecting circuit (1) which detects a pitch period of a voice signal; a pitch waveform generating circuit (2) which samples the voice signal for a plurality of pitches based on the pitch period detected by the pitch detecting circuit and which generates a waveform of one pitch from the waveform of the plurality of pitches; a band restriction circuit (3) which restricts the frequency band of the one pitch waveform generated in the pitch waveform generating circuit; and a coding circuit (4) for coding the voice waveform which is band restricted in the band restriction circuit. The sampling number of the waveform for a plurality of pitches and the restricted bandwidth can be changed in accordance with the amount of the pitch period extracted in the pitch detecting circuit. Further, the pitch detecting circuit is able to correctly detect the pitch period even when the pitch period is not a multiple of the sampling period.</p>
