Gaming headset with active noise cancellation

A gaming headset system for use by a gamer in a game event, the gaming headset system comprising

• a headset comprising a headphone and a mouth microphone to be worn by a gamer, wherein the headphone comprises two over-the-ear ear-cups each having inside a loudspeaker transducer and a feed-back microphone, wherein a feed-forward microphone is placed on an exterior part of each of the ear-cups, and
• an ambient noise and speech suppression system arranged to attenuate ambient noise and suppress intelligibility of ambient speech sound reaching the gamer, wherein the ambient noise and speech suppression system comprises a processor system arranged to execute an ambient noise and speech suppression algorithm comprising
• an active noise cancellation algorithm part arranged to operate in a combined feed-back and feed-forward configuration in response to input signals indicative of sound captured by one or more of:
• 1) the mouth microphone, 2) the feed-forward microphones, 3) the feed-back microphones, and 4) one or more sources located external to the ear-cups, so as to provide output signals to the respective loudspeaker transducers in the ear-cups of the headphone, and
• a masking noise signal algorithm generator part arranged to add a masking noise signal to the output signals to the respective loudspeaker transducers in the ear-cups of the headphone so as to provide a psychoacoustic masking effect of speech sound from a game speaker or game commentator and/or speech sound from an audience reaching the gamer's ear drums, wherein the masking noise algorithm signal generator part generates the masking noise signal in response to at least one input signal indicative of sound captured by one or more of:
• 1) the mouth microphone, 2) the feed-forward microphones, 3) the feed-back microphones, and 4) one or more sources located external to the ear-cups,
• wherein the ambient noise and speech suppression system (ANSS) is arranged to determine a measure of effective acoustic insertion loss based on measurements involving sound captured by one or both of the feed-forward and one or both of the feed-back microphones;
• and
• wherein the gaming headset further comprises a first light indicator placed on a visible exterior part of the headset to indicate in case said measure of effective acoustic insertion loss meets a predetermined criterion.

A gaming headset system for use by a gamer in a game event, the gaming headset system comprising

• a headset comprising a headphone and a mouth microphone to be worn by a gamer, wherein the headphone comprises two over-the-ear ear-cups each having inside a loudspeaker transducer and a feed-back microphone, wherein a feed-forward microphone is placed on an exterior part of each of the ear-cups, and
• an ambient noise and speech suppression system arranged to attenuate ambient noise and suppress intelligibility of ambient speech sound reaching the gamer, wherein the ambient noise and speech suppression system comprises a processor system arranged to execute an ambient noise and speech suppression algorithm comprising
• an active noise cancellation algorithm part arranged to operate in a combined feed-back and feed-forward configuration in response to input signals indicative of sound captured by one or more of:
• 1) the mouth microphone, 2) the feed-forward microphones, 3) the feed-back microphones, and 4) one or more sources located external to the ear-cups, so as to provide output signals to the respective loudspeaker transducers in the ear-cups of the headphone,
• a masking noise signal algorithm generator part arranged to add a masking noise signal to the output signals to the respective loudspeaker transducers in the ear-cups of the headphone so as to provide a psychoacoustic masking effect of speech sound from a game speaker or game commentator and/or speech sound from an audience reaching the gamer's ear drums, wherein the masking noise algorithm signal generator part generates the masking noise signal in response to at least one input signal indicative of sound captured by one or more of:
• 1) the mouth microphone, 2) the feed-forward microphones, 3) the feed-back microphones, and 4) one or more sources located external to the ear-cups;
• and
• two ear plugs to be positioned in respective ears of the gamer (GM) simultaneous with wearing the headset, so as to provide a passive attenuation of sound reaching the gamer's ear drums.