Sonova Ag

Phonak Ag

Benjamin Heldner

Marc Secall

Francois Marquis

Xavier Gigandet

Giuseppina Biundo Lotito

Fabian Nater

Roman Arnet

The disclosure relates to a method of operating a hearing system comprising an ear unit wearable at an ear of a user, an output transducer included in the ear unit, and a detector arrangement comprising a plurality of spatially separated sound detectors and configured to provide audio data representative of the detected sound.

Hearing system and method of its operation for providing audio data with directivity

The disclosed technology generally relates to a microphone device configured to receive sound from different beams, where each beam has a different spatial orientation and is configured to receive sound from different directions. The microphone device is also configured to process the received sound using a generic or specific head related transfer function (HRTF) to generate processed audio and transmit the processed audio to hearing devices worn by a hearing-impaired user. Additionally, the microphone device can use a reference line and/or reference point when processing the received audio.

Microphone device to provide audio with spatial context

There is provided a method for providing hearing assistance to a user (), comprising: capturing audio signals by a microphone arrangement () comprising at least two spaced apart microphones (M, M); estimating the total energy contained in the voice spectrum of the audio signals captured at least one of the microphones; estimating the value of the direction of arrival of the captured audio signals by comparing the audio signals captured by at least two of the spaced apart microphones; judging whether a voice is present close to microphone arrangement by taking into account the estimated total energy contained in the voice spectrum of the captured audio signals and the estimated value of the direction of arrival of the captured audio signals; outputting a signal representative of said judgement; processing said captured audio signals according to said signal representative of said judgement; and stimulating the user's hearing, by stimulating means worn at or in at least one of the user's ears (), according to the processed audio signals.

Method and system for providing hearing assistance to a user

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Benjamin Heldner