Patent ID: 11929071
Assignee: SIVANTOS PTE. LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for operating a hearing aid system having a hearing aid and a peripheral device with a voice-controlled digital assistant, which comprises the steps of:
examining a microphone signal from the hearing aid for a presence of a wearer's own voice from own voice components of the wearer of the hearing aid;
examining the microphone signal for a predefined activation command from the voice-controlled digital assistant if the own voice components are detected by the hearing aid;
processing a portion of the microphone signal representing the predefined activation command and a subsequent speech sequence by the hearing aid for a speech recognizer of the voice-controlled digital assistant using an algorithm if the predefined activation command is recognized, and carrying out speech recognition by means of the hearing aid, wherein after a word of the predefined activation command and/or the subsequent speech sequence is recognized, a segmentation signal is inserted at a corresponding position of the portion of the microphone signal; and
transmitting a processed portion of the microphone signal to the peripheral device.