Headset, an apparatus and a method with automatic selective voice pass-through

An apparatus, comprising:

• a processor configured to act as a voice pass-through module configured to pass external voices captured with a headset microphone as a second audio signal to a headset earpiece when the voice pass-through module is activated, the external voices not from a headset user, and audio output by the headset earpiece being noise reduced and based on one or more of the following:
• a first audio signal from a connected host device and associated with an application type and the second audio signal from the headset microphone, when present;
• and
• a controller configured to activate the voice pass-through module in response to receiving an indication from a headset speech detection module that the headset user is talking, when uplink audio is off.

A method, comprising:

• outputting, by a headset earpiece, noise reduced audio based on one or more of the following:
• a first audio signal from a connected host device and associated with an application type and a second audio signal from a headset microphone, when present;
• receiving, at a headset controller, an indication from a headset speech detection module that a headset user is talking;
• and
• in response, activating by the headset controller a voice pass-through module to pass external voices captured with the headset microphone as the second audio signal to the headset earpiece, when uplink audio is off the external voices not from the headset user.