Method for suppressing feedback in a hearing instrument and hearing instrument

A method for suppressing feedback in a hearing instrument, which comprises the steps of:

• generating an input signal via a microphone of the hearing instrument;
• generating an acoustic signal at a loudspeaker of the hearing instrument, the acoustic signal being partially fed back to the microphone via an acoustic feedback path;
• generating an intermediate signal along a main signal path depending on the input signal;
• forming an output signal on a basis of the intermediate signal;
• monitoring voice activity of a user of the hearing instrument;
• estimating a transfer function of an electro-acoustic closed signal loop formed by the main signal path and the acoustic feedback path;
• determining whether the transfer function of the electro-acoustic closed signal loop has a total amplification which lies below a predefined limit value;
• depending on a result of the determining step and the voice activity of the user of the hearing instrument, performing the following steps of:
• decorrelating the intermediate signal to form the output signal;
• generating a compensation signal on a basis of the output signal and feeding the compensation signal to the input signal for feedback compensation;
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• feeding the output signal to the loudspeaker for reproduction.