A hearing device configured to be worn at an ear of a user may include a sensor unit configured to provide sensor data, the sensor unit comprising a sound detector configured to provide sound data included in the sensor data; and a processor configured to determine a physiological parameter from the sensor data, the physiological parameter indicative of a physiological property of the user. The processor is configured to determine whether the physiological parameter fulfills a condition, and provide, depending on whether the physiological parameter fulfills the condition, output data based on the sensor data.

A computing system comprising one or more electronic computing devices receives data from a hearing-assistance device. The computing system determines, based on the data received from the hearing-assistance device, a cognitive benefit measure for a wearer of the hearing-assistance device. The cognitive benefit measure being an indication of a change of a cognitive benefit of the wearer of the hearing-assistance device attributable to use of the hearing-assistance device by the wearer of the hearing-assistance device. The computing device outputs an indication of the cognitive benefit measure.

Systems and methods are provided for customizing an auditory prosthesis or other medical device. Customizing the auditory prosthesis includes obtaining and evaluating system data. The system data includes data from multiple sensors, including one or more sensors of an auditory prosthesis and one or more sensors of a recipient computing device. Based on the evaluation of the system data, a target behavior is determined, such as operating the auditory prosthesis in a particular sonic environment or with particular auditory prosthesis settings.

Disclosed is a hearing device configured to be arranged at a user's ear, the hearing device comprising: an input transducer for generating one or more input signals based on a received audio signal; a signal processor configured for processing the one or more input s signals; an output transducer for providing an audio output signal based on an output signal from the signal processor; wherein the hearing device comprises a time monitor for monitoring an expiry time of a subscription for the hearing device provided by a subscription server, wherein the hearing device is configured to perform an action when the time monitor detects that the expiry time of the subscription is reached.

A method for masking an acoustic stimulus, comprising: detecting an event initiated by a user of a personal audio device, the event having an associated audio artefact; in response to detecting the event, applying the acoustic stimulus to the user's ear during a masking period in which the acoustic stimulus is masked in the user's hearing by the audio artefact; extracting, from a response signal of the user's ear to the acoustic stimulus, one or more features for use in a biometric process.

For the fitting of a hearing instrument, an audio signal of an ambient sound, recorded by way of an input transducer, is modified according to a multiplicity of signal processing parameters. Via a first classifier, a user of the hearing instrument is offered a plurality of problem descriptions for the user to select. By way of a second classifier, a proposed solution for modified values of the signal processing parameters is determined based on the user's selection of one of the offered problem descriptions.

Disclosed herein, among other things, are systems and methods for artifact detection and tuning of a feedback canceller. A method includes detecting an artifact of a feedback canceller during operation of a hearing device. Artifact data associated with the detected artifact is stored in a memory of the hearing device, the artifact data including information related to the detected artifact and information related to the hearing device during occurrence of the detected artifact. Artifact statistics are computed based on the stored artifact data, and the artifact data and the artifact statistics are transmitted to an external device. Comparison data is received from the external device, including results of a comparison of artifact data or artifact statistics of the hearing device to artifact data or artifact statistics of other devices. Parameters of the hearing device are automatically adjusted based on the comparison data to improve performance of the feedback canceller.

Hearing device including a housing worn at a user's ear; a movement detector providing movement data indicating movement of the housing; and a processor identifying, based on the movement data, movement features in a sequence. The movement features represent movement activity by the user. The processor determines a temporal characteristic of the sequence of movement features and/or an amplitude characteristic of the movement data associated with a movement feature in the sequence. A method of operating the hearing device, and a computer-readable medium storing instructions to perform the method. The processor controls maintaining a data record representing the temporal characteristic and/or the amplitude characteristic determined at a plurality of times; determines a deviation measure indicating deviation between the data record and the temporal characteristic and/or the amplitude characteristic determined at a time later than the plurality of times; and controls operation of the hearing device depending on the deviation measure.

A system includes an image sensor, a hearing device, and a controller. The controller may include one or more processors and may be operatively coupled to the image sensor and the audio sensor. The controller may be configured to receive image data from the image sensor and sound data from the hearing device. The controller may further be configured to identify one or more optical components using the image data, each of the one or more optical components associated with an object or activity; determine one or more audio objects using at least the one or more optical components and the sound data, the one or more audio objects may each include an association between at least a portion of the sound data and the object or activity; and adjust an audio class using the one or more audio objects, the audio class associated with the object or activity.

A hearing aid adjustment system is provided that can efficiently improve hearing while alleviating excessive stress to be felt by a user after adjustment of a set value of a hearing aid at each phase is performed. An adjustment system S includes a target set value decision unit 3b which decides the target set value, a first set content decision unit 3c which decides the set value at each phase based on the target set value, a wearing time measurement unit 3e which measures a wearing time of a hearing aid 2 of a user after previous adjustment, and an adjustment processing unit 3d which performs adjustment of the hearing aid 2 based on the set value at each of the phases. In adjustment at each of the phases, the adjustment processing unit 3d corrects the present set value based on the measured wearing time.