Method for operating a hearing aid, and hearing aid
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Abstract
A “speaker” operating mode is established by a signal processor of a hearing aid for tracking and selecting an acoustic speaker source in an ambient sound. Electric acoustic signals are generated by the hearing aid from the ambient sound that has been picked up, from which signals an electric speaker signal is selected by the signal processor by a database of speech profiles of preferred speakers. The electric speech signal is selectively taken into account in an output sound of the hearing aid in such a way that it will for the hearing-aid wearer acoustically at least be prominent compared with another acoustic source and consequently be better perceived by the hearing-aid wearer.
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51 Claims
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1-43. -43. (canceled)
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44. A method for operating a hearing aid, comprising:
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providing a database of speech profiles of preferred speakers;
establishing a speaker operating mode via a signal processor of the hearing aid, the speaker operating mode for tracking and selecting an acoustic speaker source from an ambient sound;
generating electric acoustic signals by the hearing aid from the ambient sound detected by the hearing device; and
selecting an electric speaker signal from the generated signals, the electric speaker signal selected by the signal processor via the database, wherein the selected signal is taken into account in an output sound of the hearing aid to be acoustically more prominent compared with unselected signals and thereby better perceived by a hearing-aid wearer. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
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