We look into a new strategy for detecting trellis-code modulated signal in the presence of frequency non- selective fading which makes simultaneous use in the decoding procedure of a set of channel distortion estimates, each one associated to a trellis state. During each symbol interval, based on a Kalman Filter-type algorithm, a distinct channel estimate is recursively generated for each survivor path using this path symbols as the truly transmitted symbols. A method is first proposed for use in non-interleaved systems. A modified version for interleaved systems. A modified version for interleaved systens is then presented. Performances are evaluated by computer simulations and comparisons mede to curves pertaining to other methods in the literature and to curves obteined under ideal channel state information assumption.