EP3955241A1 - Procédé de fonctionnement d'un appareil auditif et appareil auditif - Google Patents

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EP3955241A1
EP3955241A1 EP21185730.5A EP21185730A EP3955241A1 EP 3955241 A1 EP3955241 A1 EP 3955241A1 EP 21185730 A EP21185730 A EP 21185730A EP 3955241 A1 EP3955241 A1 EP 3955241A1
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  • the invention relates to a method for operating a hearing device and a corresponding hearing device.
  • a hearing device is used to output noises to a user of the hearing device.
  • the user wears the hearing aid on or in the ear.
  • the hearing device has an earpiece and at least one microphone in order to pick up noises from the environment and then output them to the user.
  • the noises are additionally modified by the hearing aid in order to compensate for the user's hearing loss.
  • the hearing device is therefore also referred to as a hearing aid device.
  • a hearing aid can also perform active noise cancellation, also known as “active noise cancellation”, or ANC for short.
  • ANC is used to suppress noise from the environment, especially background noise, resulting in a calmer listening situation for the user.
  • An ANC typically suppresses noises that enter the user's ear canal from the environment.
  • the concept of ANC can also be applied to noise in the ear canal, which is then referred to as “active occlusion reduction", or AOR for short.
  • AOR also suppresses noises that are caused by the user himself or that result from standing waves in the auditory canal. This is particularly the case when the auditory canal is sealed off from the environment by an earpiece.
  • the AOR is therefore primarily an internal noise suppression, which suppresses background noise in the ear canal, whereas ANC is typically an external one Noise suppression is what is meant, which suppresses disturbing noises from outside the ear canal.
  • the actual noise suppression takes place within the ear canal by generating an inverted signal which is acoustically superimposed on the noise in the ear canal and then at least partially eliminates the noise.
  • background noise ie noise that the user usually finds disturbing, is suppressed and a calmed listening situation is thereby created.
  • Active noise cancellation in the context of a hearing aid is described, for example, in EP 1 690 252 B1 , EP 2 023 664 B1 , DE 10 2008 015 264 A1 , DE 10 2009 010 892 B4 , EP 2 309 778 B1 , EP 2 405 674 B1 .
  • Speech is generally a noise from the environment and is accordingly regularly suppressed by ANC.
  • Foreign language in particular, which does not come from the user of the hearing device himself, but from another person, often represents a useful noise, which should be output to the user as clearly as possible. This is particularly relevant in conversational situations in which the user of a hearing aid is conversing with one or only a few other people.
  • speech is regarded as background noise and is to be suppressed, for example in a so-called cocktail party situation in which the speech of a large number of speakers with whom the user is not actually speaking is background noise forms.
  • ANC is intended to create a listening situation that is as quiet as possible for the user. In this respect, there is a conflict of objectives between the suppression of noise and the output of speech.
  • the method is used to operate a hearing device, in particular when the hearing device is used as intended, i.e. while the hearing device is being worn by a user for use.
  • the hearing device generally serves to output noises to the user of the hearing device and specifically preferably to compensate for a hearing deficit of a user who is in particular hearing-impaired.
  • the hearing aid has at least one microphone that picks up the noises from the environment.
  • the noises from the environment are also referred to as ambient noise or as ambient sound.
  • the microphone is suitably what is known as an external microphone, ie it points outwards with respect to the auditory canal and not into it.
  • the microphone converts the sounds into an input signal, which is an electrical signal.
  • the input signal is processed by a control unit of the hearing aid as required and finally fed to an earpiece of the hearing aid.
  • the earpiece converts the input signal into sound for output to the user.
  • the hearing device has an ANC unit, ANC being understood to mean active noise cancellation, also referred to as “active noise cancellation”.
  • the ANC unit is part of the control unit.
  • the ANC unit is designed to process a number of frequency ranges and to suppress noises from the environment in each of these frequency ranges with a respective adjustable ANC strength.
  • the ANC strength is individual for each frequency range adjustable.
  • the noises from the environment regularly include background noise or useful noise or even both, and regularly in particular speech, which is typically useful noise.
  • the input signal is fed to the ANC unit. This means that the input signal is supplied to the ANC unit in whole or in part, with at least those frequency ranges being supplied which are to be processed by the ANC unit.
  • the ANC unit analyzes the input signal and as a result outputs a feedforward signal to suppress the noise from the environment.
  • a feedforward signal is also commonly referred to as a correction signal.
  • the correction signal is in particular an electrical signal which is then fed to the receiver of the hearing aid and is converted into sound by the receiver. This sound is then what is known as anti-sound, which completely or partially eliminates, ie suppresses, the noises when superimposed in the auditory canal. Actual noise suppression is purely acoustic and not at the electrical level.
  • the ANC strength indicates how strong noise in the respective frequency range is suppressed.
  • the ANC strength corresponds to an amplitude of the feedback signal or an amplification factor with which the feedback signal is scaled in the ANC unit.
  • the ANC strength is therefore a measure of the suppression of noise in the respective frequency range. The greater the ANC strength, the stronger the suppression. Conversely, if the ANC strength is low, there is only a small amount of suppression. It is also possible to completely deactivate the ANC unit for one or more frequency ranges, so that there is no noise suppression in these, the ANC strength is then "0", so to speak. A negative ANC strength, so to speak, to amplify noise, is not intended in particular.
  • the hearing device also has a speech recognition unit for recognizing speech.
  • the speech recognition unit is in particular part of the control unit. For each of the frequency ranges, the speech recognition unit recognizes whether speech is present in it or not.
  • the input signal is expediently supplied to the speech recognition unit.
  • the speech recognition unit is supplied with another input signal, which is generated, for example, by another, second microphone, in particular also an external microphone. Speech differs from other noises in particular by certain temporal, spatial or spectral features, which the speech recognition unit then uses to recognize speech, for example in the input signal.
  • a spatial filter is used in one variant for speech recognition, purely as an example, so that a signal is generated which only generates noise from a specific direction, from which predominantly speech is to be expected, and is fed to the speech recognition unit. The presence of speech is then recognized by the speech recognition unit, e.g. based on the amplitude of this signal.
  • the speech recognition unit analyzes in particular each of the frequency ranges separately, so that it is determined for each of the frequency ranges independently of the other frequency ranges whether speech is present in it or not.
  • the speech recognition unit expediently outputs a signal which indicates for each of the frequency ranges whether speech is present in this range or not.
  • the ANC unit is controlled in such a way that the ANC strength for a respective frequency range is set depending on whether the speech recognition unit has recognized speech in this frequency range or not.
  • the ANC unit is frequency-selectively controlled by the speech recognition unit in order to make the suppression of speech by the ANC unit different from that for other noises.
  • the speech recognition unit distinguishes between speech and other noises.
  • This distinction is not general but separately for each of the frequency ranges, i.e. frequency-dependent. The distinction is then used to select and set an optimal ANC strength for each of the frequency ranges.
  • the ANC unit works in normal operation and in this case in particular equally on all frequency ranges and suppresses noises across a wide band, so to speak.
  • the ANC strength is expediently set in each frequency range as a function of the amplitude of the noise.
  • the hearing aid has, as part of the control unit, an interference noise detector which measures or estimates an amplitude of interference noises in a respective frequency range.
  • the respective ANC strength is then adjusted depending on the amplitude of the background noise.
  • a background noise detector is optional in itself, alternatively, for example, a predefined ANC strength is simply set independently of background noise. Only when speech is present in one or more frequency ranges and this is also recognized is there a specific deviation from normal operation in these frequency ranges and the ANC strength in the respective frequency range is changed, namely changed relative to the ANC strength for this frequency range in normal operation.
  • a respective frequency range is a sub-range of an overall spectrum of frequencies, which are picked up by the hearing device, processed as required and output.
  • the overall spectrum corresponds in particular to the audible range or a part thereof and extends between a lower limit and an upper limit, for example 16 Hz to 20 Hz as the lower limit and 16 kHz to 20 kHz as the upper limit.
  • the upper limit is regularly due to technical reasons and/or physiological reasons lower, for example at about 10 kHz.
  • the frequency ranges preferably border one another in pairs and do not overlap or only slightly overlap, for example for technical reasons and by less than 10 Hz.
  • the frequency ranges preferably cover the entire spectrum without gaps. Apart from any overlap as described, each frequency of the spectrum preferably belongs to only a single frequency range.
  • the frequency ranges each have a width which, in principle, can be different for each frequency range.
  • a width which, in principle, can be different for each frequency range.
  • an embodiment in which all frequency ranges have the same width is preferred. Irrespective of this, a suitable width is in particular 250 Hz, but other widths are also possible and suitable.
  • frequency range is sometimes also used to describe "noise in a frequency range” in a simplified manner.
  • the ANC strength when speech is present in a respective frequency range, the ANC strength is set lower than in cases where no speech is present in this frequency range, so that speech is suppressed less than other noises.
  • speech is specifically excluded from the suppression by the ANC unit, or at least relatively less suppressed than other noises.
  • the ANC strength for a first frequency range is 1, if no speech is present, then the ANC strength is set to a value less than 1, eg to 0.5 or 0 if the speech recognition unit recognizes speech in this first frequency range.
  • the ANC strength in another, second frequency range is 0.9 if no speech is present, for example because the noise is quieter than in the first frequency range and therefore requires less suppression.
  • the ANC strength of 0.9 is retained in the second frequency range, so that noise is optimally suppressed here.
  • the suppression is reduced in order to suppress speech less.
  • the speech intelligibility is thus increased for the user by the relevant at a given point in time Frequency ranges, the noise suppression is reduced, and at the same time there is the maximum possible noise suppression, namely in those frequency ranges which just do not contain speech.
  • Speech is specifically excluded from noise suppression, while at the same time other noises, especially background noise, are suppressed as far as possible. In those frequency ranges in which speech was recognized, maximum noise suppression is dispensed with in favor of this speech.
  • Speech can generally be distinguished into one's own language, i.e. the language of the hearing aid user, and foreign language, i.e. the language of another person and not the user.
  • the voice recognition unit preferably only recognizes foreign language as language which does not originate from the user of the hearing aid himself. In this way, foreign language is specifically excluded from the suppression by the ANC unit and one's own language continues to be suppressed. This is based on the consideration that foreign language is particularly important for the user, whereas the user's own language does not necessarily have to be output with maximum comprehensibility. So if no foreign language is present in a frequency range but native language is present, the voice recognition unit accordingly recognizes that no language is present.
  • the speech recognition unit has a Wiener filter for each of the frequency ranges for recognizing speech.
  • Wiener filters there are a corresponding number of Wiener filters.
  • a Wiener filter has the particular advantage of a particularly fast response time, which is, for example, a few milliseconds or less than 1 ms. An almost instantaneous reaction to the presence of speech is thus possible and the ANC strength is specifically adapted, preferably reduced, in a respective frequency range at those times at which speech is present in the respective frequency range.
  • the Wiener filter is used in particular as a stationarity detector, which indicates how quickly a signal changes.
  • the hearing device preferably has a filter bank with a number of channels, each of which is assigned to one of the frequency ranges.
  • a filter bank is, in particular, an array of bandpass filters that only allow a specific frequency component of an incoming signal to pass and output it as an outgoing signal.
  • the input signal generated by the microphone is fed to the filter bank, so that the input signal is divided between the various channels and each frequency range can then be processed individually.
  • the filter bank accordingly generates a divided input signal from the input signal, which is then supplied to the ANC unit and in particular also to the speech recognition unit, in order to be evaluated, ie processed, by these two in each case in a frequency-selective manner.
  • the recovery of each Channels takes place in particular parallel to one another.
  • the speech recognition unit and the ANC unit are also preferably operated in parallel with one another.
  • Each channel has a width that corresponds to the width of the corresponding frequency range, e.g. 250 Hz.
  • the filter bank typically has more than 2 channels and regularly a large number of channels, e.g. between 10 and 100. In a suitable embodiment, the filter bank has 40 channels on.
  • the hearing device basically processes a total number of frequency ranges, not all of which, however, necessarily have to be processed by the ANC unit and the speech recognition unit.
  • the ANC and the voice recognition for setting the ANC strength are thus limited to a sub-area of the overall spectrum, preferably to a lower part.
  • the ANC unit is then designed to suppress noises only in those frequency ranges which are below a limit frequency.
  • the limit frequency is 1 kHz.
  • the filter bank with 40 channels and a respective width of 250 Hz, only the lower 4 channels are used for the ANC and the associated speech recognition. This is based on the observation that ANC is technically sufficiently easy to implement primarily for low frequency ranges than for high frequency ranges, so that ANC is expediently only carried out for low frequencies. Stationary background noise is also regularly present here.
  • speech typically has high frequencies and is usually not below 100 Hz or 200 Hz at low frequencies, so that under certain circumstances and depending on the dimensioning, those frequency ranges which are below, have no speech throughout and are processed with maximum ANC strength for optimal noise suppression.
  • ANC is expediently dispensed with and accordingly the problem of suppressed speech does not occur at all.
  • the speech recognition unit outputs a discrete measure, i.e. signal, for the presence of speech for each of the frequency ranges, so that the respective ANC strength is switched between only two values, the discrete measure is therefore "binary", so to speak.
  • the discrete measure is, for example, a value of 0 or 1.
  • the discrete measure is determined, for example, by measuring an absolute amplitude of the speech or an amplitude of the speech relative to an amplitude of background noise and comparing it with a threshold value.
  • the two values are, for example, "1", also "on”, in particular if there is no speech, and "0", also "off", in particular if speech is present, i.e.
  • the ANC unit is activated in each frequency range depending on the presence of Speech enabled or disabled.
  • the values "strong” and “weak” are suitable, or numbers analogous to this, especially if at least weak noise suppression is also to take place in the case of speech and the ANC unit is therefore not completely deactivated.
  • the speech recognition unit outputs a continuous measure, ie signal, for the presence of speech for each of the frequency ranges, so that the ANC strength is continuously adjusted.
  • the continuous measure is, for example, the absolute or relative amplitude of speech in the respective frequency range, already described above, or a value dependent thereon.
  • a probability is also suitable, which indicates how likely it is that speech is present in the respective frequency range.
  • the speech recognition unit recognizes the presence of speech using a classifier, which outputs the corresponding probability of the presence of speech for each frequency range. the end alternatively, a discrete measure is derived from such a probability.
  • more than two values from a predefined working range can then be set for the ANC strength, for example the ANC strength is at least 0 and at most 1 and is set, for example, in increments of 0.1.
  • the hearing device preferably has a signal processing unit in order to amplify each of the frequency ranges with an adjustable amplification, in particular in parallel with the ANC unit.
  • the signal processing unit amplifies the input signal of the hearing aid and outputs this as an amplified signal.
  • the gain is either the same for all frequency ranges processed by the signal processing unit, or frequency dependent and then different for different frequency ranges.
  • a separate amplification can expediently be set for each of the frequency ranges.
  • the signal processing unit and its adjustable amplification implement in particular its actual hearing device functionality, namely a modification of the input signal depending on an individual hearing profile, also audiogram, of the user. In particular, this compensates for a hearing deficit of the user during operation.
  • This actual hearing device functionality is basically independent of the control of the ANC unit by means of the speech recognition unit, which is described here.
  • the amplified signal from the signal processing unit and the feedback signal from the ANC unit are output in particular together via the earpiece.
  • the amplification is preferably set as a function of frequency.
  • the amplification in this frequency range is set to be greater in a respective frequency range when speech is present than in cases in which no speech is present, so that speech is amplified more than other noises.
  • the amplification of the signal processing unit is set inversely to the ANC strength of the ANC unit, so that speech is actually amplified with the signal processing unit. If speech is present, the gain is increased and the ANC strength reduced in the respective frequency range and vice versa if there is no speech is available.
  • the control of the signal processing unit and the setting of its amplification suitably take place analogously to the control of the ANC unit and the setting of the ANC strength, for example by means of the signal from the voice recognition unit. It is also possible for the speech recognition unit to recognize speech in other frequency ranges in addition to the frequency ranges that are used by the ANC unit, so that a higher or at least different bandwidth is achieved for controlling the amplification.
  • the ANC unit also has a feedback unit, which emits a feedback signal to suppress noises that are present inside the auditory canal, i.e. specifically standing waves in the auditory canal due to an occlusion as well as noises caused by the user himself, so-called intrinsic noise.
  • a feedback unit which emits a feedback signal to suppress noises that are present inside the auditory canal, i.e. specifically standing waves in the auditory canal due to an occlusion as well as noises caused by the user himself, so-called intrinsic noise.
  • the feedback unit and the implementation of an AOR are not important here.
  • the above statements on the feedforward unit and the feedforward signal also apply analogously to the feedback unit and its feedback signal.
  • a hearing aid according to the invention has a control unit which is designed to carry out a method as described above.
  • the control unit already described above is suitable for this, so that suitable configurations result from the above statements.
  • a hearing aid 2 is shown, with an earpiece 4, a receiver 6, at least one external microphone 8, here by way of example two external microphones 8, one Housing 10 and a control unit 12.
  • 2 shows the hearing aid 2 and its wiring in more detail and in a different view, but only one of the two outer microphones 8 is shown.
  • an auditory canal 14 of a user of the hearing device 2 and two paths P1, P2, via which noises V, N from the environment can enter the auditory canal 14. Noises V, N reach the auditory canal 14 via the hearing aid 2 via the path P1, namely in that the noises V, N are recorded with the microphone 8 and are output via the earpiece 6. In this case, electrical processing takes place in the hearing device 2.
  • Noises V, N pass purely acoustically past the hearing device 2 and specifically the earpiece 4 into the auditory canal via the path P2. There is no electrical processing, but depending on the environmental conditions, eg the shape of the ear or the fit of the earpiece and the like, a transfer function that is not explicitly shown results, with which the noises V, N along the path 2 are modified.
  • the user wears the hearing aid 2 in or on the ear.
  • the user wears the housing 10 on the ear, more precisely behind the ear, and the earpiece 4 in the ear.
  • the concepts described here are equally applicable to other types of hearing aids.
  • a method for operating the hearing device 2 is also described below with reference to the figures, specifically when the hearing device 2 is used as intended.
  • the control unit 12 is designed to carry out the method.
  • the hearing device 2 is generally used to output noises to the user of the hearing device 2 and here specifically to compensate for a hearing deficit of the hearing-impaired user.
  • the hearing aid 2 has at least one microphone 8, which picks up the noises V, N from the environment, also referred to as ambient noise or ambient sound.
  • the microphone 8 is a so-called external microphone 8 here, ie it points outwards with respect to the auditory canal 14 and not straight into it.
  • the microphone 8 converts the noises V, N into an input signal E, which is an electrical signal.
  • the input signal E is processed by the control unit 12 of the hearing aid 2 as required and finally supplied to the earpiece 6, which converts the input signal E into sound for output to the user.
  • the hearing device 2 has an ANC unit 16, ANC being understood to mean active noise cancellation, also referred to as “active noise cancellation”.
  • the ANC unit 16 is part of the control unit 12 here.
  • the ANC unit 16 is designed as in FIG 3 shown to process several frequency ranges f1 - f4 and to suppress noises V, N from the environment in each of these frequency ranges f1 - f4 with a respective adjustable ANC strength A.
  • FIG 3 an example of ANC strength A as a function of frequency f is shown.
  • the ANC strength A can be set individually for each frequency range f1 - f4.
  • the ANC strength in the frequency range f1 is greater than in the frequency range f2 and in this greater than in the frequency ranges f3, f4, in which the ANC strength A is the same.
  • the noises V, N from the environment regularly include disturbing noises N or useful noises or even both, and regularly also speech V, which is typically useful noise.
  • the ANC unit 16 is supplied with the input signal E, either in whole or in part, but at least the frequency ranges f1-f4, which are then processed by the ANC unit 16. If further frequency ranges f5, f6 are supplied, these are not necessarily processed but are ignored, for example.
  • the ANC unit 16 analyzes the input signal E and, as a result, outputs a feedforward signal Sff for suppressing the noises V, N from the surroundings.
  • the feedforward signal Sff is an electrical signal which is fed to the earpiece 6 and is converted by it into sound, which in turn completely or partially eliminates, ie suppresses, the noises V, N when superimposed in the auditory canal.
  • Actual noise suppression is purely acoustic and not at the electrical level.
  • the ANC strength A indicates how strongly noises V, N are suppressed in the respective frequency range f1 - f4.
  • the ANC strength A corresponds to an amplitude of the feedback signal Sff or an amplification factor with which the feedback signal Sff is scaled in the ANC unit 16 .
  • the ANC strength A is therefore a measure of the suppression of noise in the respective frequency range f1 - f4.
  • the larger the ANC strength A the stronger the suppression.
  • the ANC strength A is low, there is only slight suppression.
  • a complete deactivation of the ANC unit 16 for one or more frequency ranges f1-f4 is also possible, so that there is no suppression of noise in these, the ANC strength A is then "0", so to speak.
  • the hearing device 2 also has a speech recognition unit 18 for recognizing speech.
  • the speech recognition unit 18 is part of the control unit 12.
  • the speech recognition unit 18 recognizes for each of the frequency ranges f1-f4 whether speech V is present therein or not.
  • the speech recognition unit 18 is supplied with the input signal E, either in whole or in part, but at least the frequency ranges f1-f4, which are then processed by the speech recognition unit 18. If further frequency ranges f5, f6 are supplied, these are not necessarily processed but are ignored, for example.
  • the speech recognition unit 18 is supplied with another input signal, which is generated by another, second microphone 8, for example.
  • the speech recognition unit 18 analyzes each of the frequency ranges f1-f4 separately so that it is determined for each of these frequency ranges f1-f4 independently of the other frequency ranges f1-f4 whether speech V is present in it or not. In the exemplary embodiment shown, the speech recognition unit 18 then outputs a signal S which indicates for each of the frequency ranges f1-f4 whether speech V is present in this range or not.
  • the ANC unit 16 is controlled in such a way that the ANC strength A for a respective frequency range f1-f4 is set depending on whether the speech recognition unit 18 is in this frequency range f1 - f4 recognized language V or not.
  • the ANC unit 16 is frequency-selectively controlled by the speech recognition unit 18 in order to specifically design the suppression of speech V by the ANC unit 16 differently than for other noises N.
  • the ANC strength is thus set A by means of the signal S centrally and all other aspects are initially optional.
  • the speech recognition unit 18 makes a distinction between speech V and other noises, with this distinction not being made generally, but separately for each of the frequency ranges f1-f4, ie frequency-dependent.
  • the distinction is then used to select and set an optimal ANC strength A for each of the frequency ranges f1 - f4. If there is no speech V in the noises from the environment, i.e. if speech V is not recognized in any of the frequency ranges f1 - f4, then the ANC unit 16 works in normal operation and in this case on all frequency ranges f1 - f4 equally and suppresses noises V , N broadband, so to speak, for example as in 3 illustrated by the sum of the horizontal solid lines in the frequency ranges f1 - f4.
  • the ANC strength A is set here, for example, in each frequency range f1 - f4 depending on the amplitude of the noises V, N, so that in the different frequency ranges f1 - f4, sometimes different ANC strengths A result in normal operation, e.g. as in 3 shown.
  • the hearing aid 2 has a background noise detector as part of the control unit 12, which measures or estimates an amplitude of background noise N, i.e. other noises N, in a respective frequency range f1-f4.
  • the respective ANC strength A is then set as a function of the amplitude of the background noise N.
  • a predefined ANC strength A is simply set independently of background noise N, for example.
  • a respective frequency range f1-f4 is a sub-range of an overall spectrum G of frequencies which are picked up by the hearing aid 2, processed as required and output.
  • the first and lowest six frequency ranges f1-f6 of an overall spectrum G shown only partially are shown as an example.
  • the total spectrum G here corresponds to a part of the audible range and extends between a lower limit that is not explicitly designated and an upper limit that is not explicitly shown, for example 16 Hz to 20 Hz as the lower limit and 16 kHz to 20 kHz or less as the upper limit.
  • the frequency ranges f1 - f6 border on each other in pairs and do not overlap or only slightly.
  • the boundaries between two adjacent frequency ranges f1 - f6 are indicated by a vertical dashed line, the boundary between the frequency ranges f4, f5 even by a double vertical dashed line.
  • the frequency ranges f1-f6 each have a width B, which in principle can be different for each frequency range f1-f6. In the exemplary embodiment shown, however, all frequency ranges f1 - f6 have the same width B, in the present example 250 Hz.
  • frequency range f1 - f6 is also occasionally used to describe "noises V, N in a frequency range f1 - f6" in a simplified manner.
  • the ANC strength A is set lower than im Compared to cases in which there is no speech V in this frequency range f1 - f4, so that speech V is suppressed less than other noises N.
  • speech V is specifically excluded from the suppression by the ANC unit 16, or at least relatively less suppressed than other noises N.
  • speech intelligibility is increased for the user by reducing the noise suppression in the frequency ranges f1 - f4 that are relevant at a given point in time, and at the same time noise is suppressed as much as possible, namely in those frequency ranges f1 - f4 that are currently not speaking V included.
  • Language V can generally be distinguished into its own language, i.e. the language of the user of the hearing aid 2, and a foreign language, i.e. the language of another person and not precisely that of the user.
  • the voice recognition unit 18 only recognizes foreign language as language V which does not originate from the user of the hearing device 2 himself. In this way, foreign language is specifically excluded from the suppression by the ANC unit 16 and one's own language continues to be suppressed. This is based on the consideration that foreign language is particularly important for the user, whereas the user's own language does not necessarily have to be output with maximum comprehensibility.
  • the speech recognition unit 18 has a Wiener filter 20 for each of the frequency ranges f1 - f4 for recognizing speech V.
  • Wiener filters 20 there are a corresponding number of Wiener filters 20 present, in 2 thus four Wiener filters 20.
  • a Wiener filter 20 has a response time which is, for example, a few milliseconds or less than 1 ms, so that an almost instantaneous response to the presence of speech V is possible and the ANC strength A is in one respective frequency range f1 - f4 is specifically reduced at such times at which speech V is present in the respective frequency range f1 - f4.
  • the Wiener filter 20 is used in this context as a stationarity detector, which indicates how fast a signal is changing. In a more general embodiment, not explicitly shown, another stationarity detector is used instead of the Wiener filter 20.
  • the hearing aid 2 shown also has a filter bank 22 with a plurality of channels 24, each of which is assigned one of the frequency ranges f1-f6.
  • the filter bank 22 is an array of bandpass filters which allow only a specific frequency component of an incoming signal, here the input signal E, to pass, namely one of the frequency ranges f1-f6, and output it as an outgoing signal.
  • the sum of the outgoing signals of channels 24 still corresponds to the input signal E.
  • the input signal E which is generated by the microphone 8, is fed to the filter bank 22, so that the input signal E is divided between the various channels and then each frequency range f1 - f6 can be processed individually.
  • the filter bank 22 therefore generates a divided input signal E from the input signal E, which is then fed to the ANC unit 16 and here also to the speech recognition unit 18 in order to be evaluated, i.e. processed, by these two in a frequency-selective manner.
  • the input signal E is forwarded from the filter bank 22 in whole or in part to the ANC unit 16 and the speech recognition unit 18.
  • the individual channels 24 are used in parallel in the ANC unit 16 on the one hand and in the speech recognition unit 18 on the other, i.e. the speech recognition unit 18 and the ANC unit 16 are operated in parallel in the exemplary embodiment shown.
  • Each channel 24 has a width that corresponds to the width B of the corresponding frequency range f1 - f6, i.e. 250 Hz here, for example.
  • the filter bank 22 typically has more than 2 channels 24 and regularly has a large number of channels 24, e.g. between 10 and 100 In the embodiment shown here, the filter bank 22 has 40 channels 24 .
  • the hearing aid 2 basically processes a total number of frequency ranges f1-f6, not all of which, however, necessarily have to be processed by the ANC unit 16 and the speech recognition unit 18 as well.
  • the ANC and the speech recognition for setting the ANC strength A are thus limited to a sub-area of the total spectrum G, here to a lower part.
  • the ANC unit 16 is designed to suppress noises V, N only in those frequency ranges f1 - f4 which are below a limit frequency fg, which is in 3 represented by the vertical double-dashed line already described.
  • the limit frequency fg is 1 kHz, for example.
  • the exemplary filter bank 22 with 40 channels 24 and a respective width B of 250 Hz only the lower 4 channels 24 are used in the ANC and the associated speech recognition. In the range up to 1 kHz, both speech V and background noise N are regularly present.
  • the speech recognition unit 18 outputs a discrete measure S, ie signal S, for the presence of speech V for each of the frequency ranges f1-f4, so that the respective ANC strength A is switched between only two values.
  • the discrete measure S is, for example, a value of 0 or 1.
  • the speech recognition unit 18 outputs a continuous measure S, ie signal S, for the presence of speech V for each of the frequency ranges f1-f4. so that the ANC strength A is continuously adjusted.
  • the continuous measure S is, for example, the absolute or relative amplitude of speech V in the respective frequency range f1-f4.
  • a probability is also suitable, which indicates how likely speech V is to be present in the respective frequency range f1-f4.
  • the hearing aid 2 shown here has a signal processing unit 26 to amplify each of the frequency ranges f1 - f6 with an adjustable gain, in this case parallel to the ANC unit 16 and also parallel to the speech recognition unit 18.
  • the signal processing unit 26 amplifies the input signal E of the hearing aid 2 and outputs this as an amplified signal.
  • the gain is either the same for all frequency ranges f1 - f6 processed by the signal processing unit 18, or frequency dependent and then different for different frequency ranges f1 - f4.
  • the signal processing unit 26 and its adjustable amplification implement its actual hearing aid functionality, namely a modification of the input signal E depending on an individual hearing profile of the user, whereby a hearing deficit of the user is compensated during operation.
  • this actual hearing device functionality is fundamentally independent of the control of ANC unit 16 by means of speech recognition unit 18.
  • the amplified signal from signal processing unit 26 and the feedback signal Sff from ANC unit 16 are output together via receiver 6 in the present case.
  • the amplification is also set as a function of frequency, and in a respective frequency range f1-f4 when speech V is present, the amplification in this frequency range f1-f4 is set greater than in cases in which no speech V is present, so that speech V is amplified more than other noises N.
  • the amplification of the signal processing unit 26 is set inversely to the ANC strength A of the ANC unit 16, so that speech V is just amplified with the signal processing unit 26 . If speech V is present, the amplification is increased and the ANC strength A is reduced in the respective frequency range f1-f4 and vice versa if no speech V is present.
  • the signal processing unit 26 is controlled and its amplification is set, for example, in the same way as the ANC unit 16 is controlled and the ANC strength is set, for example by means of the signal S. This is shown in 2 but not shown explicitly.

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