Audio system using individualized sound profiles

A system comprising:

• one or more microphones coupled to a frame of a headset, the one or more microphones configured to capture sound from a local area;
• an audio controller integrated into the headset and communicatively coupled to an in-ear device worn by a user, the audio controller configured to:
• identify one or more sound sources in the local area based on the captured sound;
• determine a target sound source of the one or more sound sources;
• determine one or more filters to apply to a sound signal associated with the target sound source in the captured sound, wherein the one or more filters are based in part on a sound profile of the user, the sound profile including at least a user audiogram;
• generate an augmented sound signal by applying the one or more filters to the sound signal;
• provide the augmented sound signal to the in-ear device for presentation to a user;
• and
• update the sound profile of the user based on user feedback.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• capturing, by one or more microphones, sound from a local area;
• identifying one or more sound sources in the local area based on the captured sound;
• determining a target sound source of the one or more sound sources;
• determining one or more filters to apply to a sound signal associated with the target sound source in the captured sound, wherein the one or more filters are based in part on a sound profile of the user, the sound profile including at least a user audiogram;
• generating an augmented sound signal by applying the one or more filters to the sound signal;
• providing the augmented sound signal to a speaker assembly for presentation to a user and
• updating the sound profile of the user based on user feedback.

A method comprising:

• capturing, by one or more microphones, sound from a local area;
• identifying one or more sound sources in the local area based on the captured sound;
• determining a target sound source of the one or more sound sources;
• determining one or more filters to apply to a sound signal associated with the target sound source in the captured sound;
• generating an augmented sound signal by applying the one or more filters to the sound signal;
• providing the augmented sound signal to a speaker assembly for presentation to a user;
• detecting that the target sound source is within a threshold distance of a different sound source in the local area;
• and
• updating at least one of the one or more filters to increase spatial separation between the target sound source and the different sound source to be at least a separation distance that is greater than the threshold distance,
• wherein the augmented sound signal presented to the user is such that sound appears to originate from the target sound source and the sound from the different sound source appears to originate from a location in the local area that is at least the separation distance from the target sound source.

A method comprising:

• capturing, by one or more microphones coupled to a frame of a headset, sound from a local area, the headset is separate from and communicatively coupled to an in-ear device;
• identifying one or more sound sources in the local area based on the captured sound;
• determining a target sound source of the one or more sound sources;
• determining one or more filters to apply to a sound signal associated with the target sound source in the captured sound;
• generating an augmented sound signal by applying the one or more filters to the sound signal;
• providing the augmented sound signal to a speaker assembly of the in-ear device worn by the user;
• capturing, by one or more microphones, a leakage signal from the in-ear device;
• determining a mitigation signal to substantially prevent the leakage signal, the mitigation signal is out-of-phase to the leakage signal;
• and
• providing the mitigation signal as an output signal to a separate speaker assembly coupled to a headset.