Presented herein are techniques for adapting settings/operations of a remote microphone device associated with an auditory prosthesis based on a desired/preferred listening direction of a recipient of the auditory prosthesis. More specifically, an auditory prosthesis worn by a recipient and a remote microphone device, which are configured to wirelessly communicate with one another, are both positioned in the same spatial area. At least one of a recipient-specified (e.g., recipient-preferred) region of interest within the spatial area, or a recipient-specified listening direction, is determined. Based on a determined relative positioning (e.g., location and orientation) of the remote microphone device and the auditory prosthesis, operation of the remote microphone device is dynamically adapted so that the remote microphone device can focus on (e.g., have increased sensitivity to) sounds originating from the recipient-specified region of interest/listening direction.

An auditory device assembly (1) comprises an earpiece (3) having an audio output device (7) for an ear (9) of a user and an audio processing unit (11, 33). The audio processing unit (11, 33) has a hearing-test mode and an audio streaming mode. In the hearing test mode the audio processing unit (11, 33) is arranged to determine at least one ear characteristic of the ear of the user based on at least one hearing test. In the audio streaming mode the audio processing unit (11, 33) is arranged to output an audio stream via the audio output device (7). The audio processing unit (11, 33) is arranged to adjust the output of the audio stream in the audio streaming mode based on the at least one ear characteristic determined in the hearing-test mode.

A method for maintaining contact information in a hearing impaired assisted user's communication device includes the steps of (a) providing a web site for altering assisted user contact information, (b) linking a proxy device to the web site, (c) receiving an identifier associated with the assisted user's device via the proxy device, (d) identifying an assisted user's device via the received identifier, (e) enabling the proxy device to be used to modify contact information for the assisted user associated with the received identifier, (f) starting a timer to time out a sync timeout period, (g) during the sync timeout period, receiving an indication via the assisted user's device confirming a desire to update the assisted user's contact information, (h) updating the assisted user's contact information, and (i) at the end of the timeout period, ceasing an indication that updated data is ready to be used from the assisted user's device.

Presented herein are techniques for generating information characterizing an amount of vibration isolation between an implantable vibration sensor and an implantable mechanical actuator (actuator), when each are implanted in a recipient. In particular, the implantable mechanical actuator is configured to generate and deliver, based on one or more actuator control signals, mechanical stimulation signals to the recipient. The vibration sensor is configured to capture vibrations induced by the delivery of the mechanical stimulation signals to the recipient. A vibrational transfer function relating a position of the vibration sensor to the actuator is then generated based on the captured vibrations and the attributes of the actuator control signals. The vibrational transfer function provides an indication of the vibration isolation present between the vibration sensor and the actuator, at their respective locations within the recipient.

A mode control method includes determining, by a terminal device based on a scene type of an external environment, that a processing mode used by a headset is a target mode. The target mode is one of a plurality of processing modes supported by the headset, where different processing modes correspond to different scene types, and the processing modes supported by the headset include at least two of the following modes: an active noise control (ANC) mode, a hear-through (HT) mode, or an augmented hearing (AH) mode. Processing intensity in the target mode is automatically adjusted based on an event in a current external environment. The terminal device further provides a control interface for the headset to provide selection controls for the user to select a processing mode and processing intensity. The user controls a processing mode and processing intensity of the headset based on a requirement.

Disclosed herein, among other things, are systems and methods for a hearing device antenna. One aspect of the present subject matter includes a hearing device configured to be worn in an ear of a wearer to perform wireless communication. The hearing device includes a housing, hearing electronics within the housing, and an inverted F antenna or loop antenna disposed at least partially in the housing and configured for performing 2.4 GHz wireless communication. In various embodiments, at least a portion of the antenna protrudes from an exterior of the housing.

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.

A system and method for differentially locating and modifying audio sources that includes receiving multiple audio inputs from a set of distinct locations; determining a multi-dimensional audio map from the audio inputs; acquiring a set of positional audio control inputs applied to the audio map, each audio control input comprising a location and audio processing property; and generating an audio output according to the audio control inputs and the audio inputs. The audio control inputs capable of configuration through manual, automatic, computer vision analysis, and other configuration modes.

A remote microphone device for a hearing aid system comprises a multitude of microphones providing a corresponding multitude of electric input signals; a digital signal processor for providing a processed signal in dependence of said multitude of electric input signals. The processor comprises a noise reduction system comprising at least one beamformer for providing a spatially filtered signal. The remote microphone device further comprises a wireless communication interface comprising antenna and transceiver circuitry allowing the remote microphone device to transmit said processed signal comprising said spatially filtered signal or a further processed version thereof to said hearing aid system; a rechargeable battery; a casing having a planar structure with a form and size as a standard credit card; and a user interface configured to allow the user to control functionality of the remote microphone device. The invention may e.g. be used in hearing aid systems or headsets.

In a method of fitting of a hearing device having an input transducer and an output transducer, the method includes executing a fitting application on a graphical user interface of an external device in communication with the hearing device, detecting by measuring reactions of the user to picked-up sound, performing acoustic feedback measurements as a background process without a user's involvement, assessing the probability of a correct physical fit based on the position of the inserted hearing device, assessing feedback risk based on the correct physical fit assessment and the acoustic feedback measurements, and fine tuning fitting parameter of the hearing device based on the result of at least one of the detected reactions of the user, acoustic feedback measurements and saved, within the fitting application, personal information of the user.