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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2015
Widex A/s, Lynge, DK;
Ole Hau, Stenlose, DK;
Morten Love Jepsen, Frederiksberg, DK;
Widex A/S, Lynge, DK;
Abstract
A method of processing a signal in a hearing aid () comprises splitting an input signal into a multitude N of hearing aid frequency bands, receiving an input signal from an acoustical-electrical transducer, splitting the input signal into a multitude N of hearing aid frequency bands using a first filterbank, estimating speech, noise and hearing loss levels in said frequency bands, using an auditory model of the cochlea for a hearing impaired person to provide excitation values for speech and noise in said frequency bands, using said excitation values to calculated a speech intelligibility measure and optimizing said speech intelligibility measure by iteratively varying the applied gain in the hearing aid frequency bands. The invention also provides a hearing aid ().