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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2013
Sonova Ag, Stafa, CH;
Thomas Zurbruegg, Zurich, CH;
Andre Niederberger, Mannedorf, CH;
SONOVA AG, Stafa, CH;
Abstract
A method for operating a hearing device including an ambient microphone, a signal processing unit, a receiver and an ear canal microphone. The method includes steps of filtering the audio signal processed by the signal processing unit with a filter having a transfer function including a transfer function from an output of the receiver to an input of the ear canal microphone when the hearing device is turned on and being worn in an ear canal of the user, computing a difference between the audio signal picked up by the ear canal microphone and the filtered signal, and detecting a presence of own-voice of the user based on the difference. Furthermore, a hearing device including an own-voice detection unit is provided, which is adapted to perform the proposed method.