Voice recorder for use with a hearing device
AssigneeOticon A/S
InventorsGabriel ALDAZ, Piotr SAPIEZYNSKI
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Abstract
Voice recorder for use with a hearing device, wherein the voice recorder comprises a microphone for capturing an audio signal, a circular buffer adapted to continuously buffer the most recent portion of said audio signal as a sound snippet of a predefined duration, an input device to be operated by a user of the hearing device and a saving means adapted to save into a memory the sound snippet momentarily held in the circular buffer upon operation of the input device.
Claims13
Voice recorder for use with a hearing device, wherein the voice recorder comprises a microphone for capturing an audio signal, a circular buffer adapted to continuously buffer the most recent portion of said audio signal as a sound snippet of a predefined duration, a input device adapted to be operated by a user of the hearing device and a saving means adapted to save into a memory the sound snippet momentarily held in the circular buffer upon operation of the input device.
Method for operating a voice recorder for use with a hearing device, comprising:
- capturing an audio signal using a microphone;
- continuously buffering the most recent portion of said audio signal as a sound snippet of a predefined duration in a circular buffer;
- awaiting a user input to occur via an input device;
- and after a user input occurred:
- saving into a memory the sound snippet momentarily held in the circular buffer by means of a saving means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.