BINAURAL METHOD AND BINAURAL CONFIGURATION FOR VOICE CONTROL OF HEARING DEVICES

• US 20110238419A1
• Filed: 03/24/2011
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (WS Audiology A/S)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Medical Instruments Pte Ltd (WS Audiology A/S)
• Inventors: Barthel, Roland
• Application Number:
  US13/070,646
• Publication Number:
  US 20110238419A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/251
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2225/61 Aspects relating to mechanical or electronic switches or control elements, e.g. functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/552 Binaural
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/558 Remote control, e.g. of amplification, frequency

Abstract

A binaural configuration and an associated method have/utilize first and second hearing devices for the voice control of the hearing devices by voice commands. The configuration contains a first voice recognition module in the first hearing device and a second voice recognition module in the second hearing device. The second voice recognition module uses information data from the first voice recognition module for recognition of the voice commands. It is here advantageous that the rate of erroneously recognized voice commands (“false alarms”) is reduced.

Claims

1. A method for voice control of hearing devices using voice commands, the hearing devices including a first hearing device and a second hearing device in binaural configuration, which comprises the steps of:

transferring information data from a second voice recognition method of the second hearing device method to a first voice recognition method of a first hearing device; and

using, in a first voice recognition method of the first hearing device, the information data from the second voice recognition method of the second hearing device for recognition of the voice commands.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information data contains a second voice command recognized by the second voice recognition method.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein a voice command is only used for voice control if the second voice command corresponds with a first voice command recognized by the first voice recognition method.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information data contains at least one of acoustic parameters, results of a Voice Activity Detection or levels of probability of recognized voice commands.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second voice recognition method is a same as the first voice recognition method.

6. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises transmitting the information data wirelessly from the first hearing device to the second hearing device.

7. A binaural configuration for performing voice control of hearing devices by means of voice commands, the binaural configuration comprising:

a first hearing device having a first voice recognition module; and

a second hearing device having a second voice recognition module, said second voice recognition module using information data from said first voice recognition module for recognition of the voice commands.

8. The configuration according to claim 7, wherein the information data contains a first voice command recognized by said first voice recognition module.

9. The configuration according to claim 8, wherein a voice command is only used for voice control if the first voice command corresponds with a second voice command recognized by said second voice recognition module.

10. The configuration according to claim 7, wherein the information data contains at least one of acoustic parameters, results of a Voice Activity Detection or levels of probability of recognized voice commands.

11. The configuration according to claim 7, wherein:

said first voice recognition module has a first voice recognition algorithm; and

said second voice recognition module has a second voice recognition algorithm.

12. The configuration according to claim 11, wherein the first voice recognition algorithm is a same as the second voice recognition algorithm.

13. The configuration according to claim 7, wherein:

said first hearing device has a first radio module; and

said second hearing device has a second radio module, said first radio module transfers the information data to said second radio module.