Sonova

There is provided a socket assembly (20) for a hearing device plug connector system (10), comprising a socket body (30) having an outer surface (31) and a cavity (32) with a front opening (33) for receiving a plug assembly (50) of the plug connector system (10) along a longitudinal axis (A3); and a spring element (40) having a first coupling portion (42C, 44C) for attaching the spring element (40) to the socket body (30) by engagement with a retention structure (34A, 34B) of the outer surface (31) of the socket body (30) and having a second coupling portion (46) that is configured to retain the plug assembly (50) at the socket body (30) in a releasable manner and that is spaced apart from the first coupling portion (42C, 44C) along the longitudinal axis (A3). The spring element (40) comprises a first U-shaped portion (42), a second U-shaped portion (44) provided opposite to and facing the first portion (42) and the second coupling portion (46) which connects ends (47A, 47B) of the first U-shaped portion (42) and ends (49A, 49B) of the second U-shaped portion (44), wherein the first portion (42) and the second portion (44) are angled towards each other relative to the second coupling portion (46) in a U-type fashion. The first coupling portion is formed by a transverse arm (42C, 44C) of the first and second U-shaped portion, which engages with the retention structure (34A, 34B) of the outer surface (31) of the socket body (30) via elastic retention forces of the spring element (40) acting along a first axis (A1) extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis (A3) and the transverse arms (42C, 44C). The second coupling portion comprises two further transverse arms (46A, 46B) that are configured to engage with the retention structure (51A, 51B) of the plug assembly (50) via elastic retention forces of the spring element (40) acting along a second axis (A2) extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis (A3) and to the first axis (A1).

The disclosure relates to a method of audio processing in a hearing device to provide for speech enhancement, the hearing device configured to be worn at an ear of a user, the method comprising separating one or more speech signals (SSP) from an input audio signal (SI) in a neural network (105, 145, 205, 305, 605, 635, 655), wherein an output audio signal (SO) is based on one or more of the separated speech signals (SSP). The disclosure further relates to a hearing device configured to perform the method.To provide the user with an improved natural perception of acoustic surroundings during conversations, the disclosure proposes that the method further comprises detecting, by the neural network (105, 145, 205, 305, 605, 635, 655), whether the input signal (SI) comprises an own-voice component (OVD) representative of a speech of the user, wherein, when the own-voice component (OVD) is detected, the input signal (SI) is processed so as to provide for an effective attenuation of the own-voice component (OVD) in the output signal (SO) relative to one or more of the separated speech signals (SSP) in the output signal (SO) when the own-voice component (OVD) is undetected.

A hearing device stores one or more predefined programs in a program list of the hearing device, receives information related to a selected Bluetooth Low Energy Broadcast Audio transmission from an external device having a rich user interface, and stores the received information in the program list as a Bluetooth Low Energy Broadcast Audio reception program. Selecting the Bluetooth Low Energy Broadcast Audio reception program causes the hearing device to operate as a Bluetooth Low Energy Broadcast Audio receiver that outputs audio from the corresponding Bluetooth Low Energy Broadcast Audio transmission to a user of the hearing device.

An illustrative fitting system is provided for determining a target length of a sound delivery system (SDS) from a hearing device, the SDS configured to connect a behind-the-ear (BTE) unit positioned behind an ear of an end user with an earpiece when worn by the end user. The fitting system includes a position sensor included in the BTE unit and having a gravity direction detector configured to generate position data representative of an orientation of the BTE unit relative to a gravity direction, a processing unit communicatively coupled to the position sensor and configured to determine, based on the position data, when a pitch angle of the BTE unit is within a threshold range, and a communication means configured to indicate when the pitch angle of the BTE unit is within the threshold range for determining the target length of the SDS.

Method for detecting a sensory overload of a user with a hearing device comprising the following steps of, measuring an acoustic property value of an audio input to detect whether there is acoustically induced stress, and measuring a motion property value to detect whether there is behavioral stress of the user, and selecting an acoustic stimulus that is configured to modify a sound processing of the audio input and convert it to an audio output if the acoustic property value is equal to or above a predetermined acoustic property threshold value and/or if the motion property value is equal to or above a predetermined motion property threshold value, and modifying the sound processing with the acoustic stimulus, and re-measuring the acoustic property value and the motion property value and verifying whether the re-measured motion property value is lower than the motion property value measured at step b).

The disclosure relates to a method for automatically steering a hearing device (10), the method comprising: receiving an input audio signal (302) via an input device (20) included in the hearing device; projecting the input audio signal (302) into a partitioned embedding space (304, 400, 600) to form a set of embeddings, wherein the partitioned embedding space includes a plurality of regions (602); identifying a region (602) of the plurality of regions (602) corresponding to the set of embeddings, wherein the region (602) corresponds to one or more signal processing transformations (142, 308); processing the input audio signal (302) to obtain a processed audio signal, wherein the processing comprises applying the one or more signal processing transformations (142, 308) to the input audio signal (302); and outputting the processed audio signal with an output device (22) included in the hearing device. The disclosure further relates to a hearing device for performing the method.

Method to mitigate the effect of spatial artifacts in an acoustic signal in a binaural hearing system (1), with the steps of providing a first hearing device (2) and a second hearing device (4), comprising a first neural network (19) and a second neural network (20), each. The neural networks create a first intermediate network data (42) based on the first audio input (27) and a second intermediate network data (43) based on the second audio input (28), each. A copy of that intermediate network data is sent to the contralateral hearing device, where the neural network units create a first processing instruction (61) and a second processing instruction (64), respectively, based on the local intermediate network data (42, 43) and the copy of the intermediate network data (53, 47) received. That processing instruction (61, 64) is then applied in each hearing device to process the audio input (27, 28), each.

A neural network, fitting system and method for user-specifically adjusting audio signal processing on a hearing device is described. The neural network (24) comprises a set of at least two data inputs (26) for receiving respective input data (ID), an encoder (27) for calculating a unified embedding (28) of the input data (ID) in a unified embedding space, and at least one decoder (29) for obtaining audiological output data (OD) from the unified embedding (28). The encoder (27) is configured to calculate the unified embedding (28) based on input data (ID) received by different subsets of the set of data inputs (26).

A method for customizing audio signal processing on a hearing device system (1), a method for customized audio signal processing and a hearing device system are described. The hearing device system (1) comprises or has access to a speaker database (20) comprising a plurality of speaker IDs (21) being associated with respective speakers, wherein a priority parameter (P) is assigned to each speaker ID (21). The hearing device system (1), in particular a hearing device (2) thereof, is configured to detect one or more speech signals (SI) in an audio signal (I), to associate the detected one or more speech signals (SI) with one or more speaker IDs (21) from the speaker database (20) and to provide for a customized audio signal processing of the one or more speech signals (SI) in accordance with the corresponding priority parameter (P) of the associated one or more speaker IDs (21). The method for customizing audio signal processing comprises adjusting the priority parameters (P) in dependence of at least one of the following: a conversation intensity of one or more conversations of a user (U) of the hearing device system (1) with the respective speaker, and a time (UT) and/or location (UL) of the user of the hearing device system (1).

The invention relates to a charger (1) for charging at least one hearing device (3) having a rechargeable battery, the charger (1) comprising at least one charging bay (2) configured to receive a respective hearing device (3), the charging bay (2) having a set of electrically conductive contact elements (6) configured to contact corresponding electrically conductive contact elements (7) on the hearing device (3), wherein the charger (1) further comprises at least one electrically operated vibrator (4) configured to generate and transmit vibrations to the at least one charging bay (2).