Siemens Audiologische Technik Gmbh

Thomas Hies

Eghart Fischer

Matthias Fröhlich

Volkmar Hamacher

Frank Wagner

Thomas Hopf

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 ('). This association is learnt by a classifier, for example a neural network (). After the training process, the neural network () can then reliably associate the corresponding hearing Situation identification (&#x2032;) with an acoustic input Signal (). A current Parameter Set (&#x2032;) is varied or supplemented appropriately on the basis of this association.

Method for training and operating a hearing aid

The correct recognition of the auditory situation 'television' often poses a problem for hearing aid devices with automatic situation recognition, since a plurality of real situations are simulated by the television audio signal. To correctly recognize the situation 'television', the invention therefore provides to detect a line signal with a particular line signal frequency output by the television device, and given the existence of such a line signal to automatically implement the auditory situation &#x201c;television&#x201d;.

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Erlangen, Germany

Thomas Hies