Talker-specific tuning of hearing assistance device
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsGraham Bradley Davis, Ashwin Pillay, Shankar Thagadur Shivappa, Arvind Krishna Sridhar
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Abstract
A device includes a memory configured to store audio data and one or more processors configured to obtain audio data for playout to a user and obtain hearing assistance settings that are based on voice characteristics of a target talker associated with the audio data and based on hearing characteristics of the user. The one or more processors are configured to configure a hearing assistance device to adjust playout audio characteristics of the audio data based on the hearing assistance settings.
Claims20
A device comprising:
- a memory configured to store audio data;
- and
- one or more processors configured to:
- obtain audio data for playout to a user;
- obtain hearing assistance settings that are based on voice characteristics of a target talker associated with the audio data and based on hearing characteristics of the user;
- and
- configure a hearing assistance device to adjust playout audio characteristics of the audio data based on the hearing assistance settings.
A method comprising:
- obtaining audio data for playout to a user;
- obtaining hearing assistance settings that are based on voice characteristics of a target talker associated with the audio data and based on hearing characteristics of the user;
- and
- configuring a hearing assistance device to adjust playout audio characteristics of the audio data based on the hearing assistance settings.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage device storing instructions executable by one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to:
- obtain audio data for playout to a user;
- obtain hearing assistance settings that are based on voice characteristics of a target talker associated with the audio data and based on hearing characteristics of the user;
- and
- configure a hearing assistance device to adjust playout audio characteristics of the audio data based on the hearing assistance settings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.