1. An acoustic front-end device comprising: a frame parser module receiving an acoustic signal and parsing the received acoustic signal into a plurality of frames; a plurality of correlation modules, each of the plurality of correlation modules comprising one or more acoustic property sets, each of the correlation modules correlating each of the plurality of frames with the one or more acoustic property sets; a controller; one or more speech codebooks; and wherein the controller retrieves one or more speech characteristic samples from the one or more speech codebooks based on the acoustic property set correlations.