Method for training and operating a hearing aid
AssigneeSiemens Audiologische Technik GmbH
InventorsMatthias Fröhlich, Thomas Hies
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Abstract
The training of a hearing aid for individual Situations is intended to be simpler and more comprehensive for the hearing aid wearer. The invention therefore provides for the hearing aid wearer just to have to associate a current acoustic Situation with a predetermined hearing Situation identification (3′). This association is learnt by a classifier, for example a neural network (5). After the training process, the neural network (5) can then reliably associate the corresponding hearing Situation identification (3′) with an acoustic input Signal (2). A current Parameter Set (4′) is varied or supplemented appropriately on the basis of this association.
Claims6
A method for operating a hearing aid, comprising:
- receiving an acoustic input signal by the hearing aid;
- receiving an assignment of the acoustic input signal from a user of the hearing aid, wherein the assignment comprises an assignment of the acoustic input signal with one of a plurality of predetermined specific hearing situation identifications identifying situations where the hearing aid is used by a user of the hearing aid;
- automatically adjusting a setting of the hearing aid as a function of the assigned one of a plurality of predetermined hearing situation identifications by the user of the hearing aid, wherein the setting is derived by the hearing aid learning two or more situations where the hearing aid is used separately such that the setting is suitable for use when the two or more hearing situations occur at the same time;
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- utilizing the setting derived from two or more hearing situations when the two or more hearing situations occur at the same time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.