Hearing aid
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Abstract
In a hearing aid the emission of a voice signal to announce the current time of day is to be output in a simple and cost-effective manner. In addition, a proposal is made to only save the voice signal for the current time of day in the hearing aid and to constantly update this voice signal by means of an external transmitter, preferably a remote controller. In this way, less memory space is thus required in the hearing aid for the time announcement.
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9. A hearing aid system, comprising:
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a hearing aid unit, comprising;
an input converter for acquiring an input signal and converting the input signal into an electrical input signal;
a signal processing unit for processing and frequency-dependent amplifying the electrical input signal;
an output converter for generating an output signal perceivable by a user of the hearing aid as an acoustic signal; and
an external transmitter for the wirelessly transmitting data to the hearing aid unit, wherein the hearing aid unit is configured to output a current time message as a speech signal using the external transmitter, the hearing aid includes a memory unit having at least one stored speech signals for outputting the current time message, the at least one stored speech signal not sufficient for outputting every possible time message corresponding to every possible point in time during a day, and the at least one stored speech signal is continuously updated to correspond to the current time using an update signal transmitted to the hearing aid unit by the external transmitter, such that the updated stored speech signal can be output to the user as the current time message using the output converter. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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