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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2005
Stefan Menzl, Jona, CH;
Stefan Menzl, Jona, CH;
Phonak AG, Stafa, CH;
Abstract
A hearing device () and a method to operate a hearing device (), the method comprising the steps of selecting a hearing program from a set of hearing programs, the set comprising at least two hearing programs, one of which is a mute hearing program being defined by applying no or only a reduced signal to a receiver of the hearing device (), operating the hearing device () in the mute hearing program after it has been activated, monitoring an input signal to the hearing device (), selecting another hearing program than the mute hearing program after a predefined activity has been detected in the input signal, and operating the hearing device () according to the selected hearing program.