In a device configurable to encode speech performing an open loop re-decision may comprise representing a speech signal by amplitude components and phase components for a current frame and a past frame. During the current frame, there may be an extraction of uncompressed amplitude components and uncompressed phase components. The amplitude components and the phase components from the past frame may then be retrieved. A set of features may be generated based on the uncompressed amplitude components from the current frame, the uncompressed phase components from the current frame, the amplitude components from the past frame, and the phase components from the past frame. The set of features may be checked as part of the open loop re-decision, and determining a final encoding decision based on the checking may be performed. The final encoding decision may be an encoding mode and/or encoding rate.