Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for compensating for a voice packet loss, which are used to compensate for a lost voice packet. The method in the embodiments of the present invention includes: extracting a pitch period from received voice data when a lost frame is detected; calculating a backward phase of a last received frame of normal voice data; calculating a forward phase of the lost frame according to the backward phase; capturing, from the received data, data whose last frame is with a same phase as the forward phase, as compensation data.