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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2020
Sonova Ag, Staefa, CH;
Manuela Feilner, Egg bei Zürich, CH;
Harald Kruger, Affoltern am Albis, CH;
Sonova AG, Staefa, CH;
Abstract
Systems and methods for controlling hearing devices are disclosed. Each hearing device is worn by a user, the hearing devices being communicatively interconnected with each other for data exchange to form a hearing device system. A method includes acquiring a sound signal of each user with a microphone of the hearing device of the user; determining from the sound signal a speaker signal, which indicates, whether the user is a speaking user; determining a priority score for each user from the speaker signal of the user; outputting sound signals from speaking users to the users via the hearing devices of the users, such that sound signals from speaking users with a priority score smaller than a threshold are muted.