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

Claim 8:
9. A hearing aid for a hearing device system, the hearing aid comprising:
at least one microphone for generating a microphone signal;
an own voice detection unit for examining the microphone signal for own voice components of a wearer of the hearing aid;
a first speech recognizer for examining the microphone signal for a predefined activation command of a voice-controlled digital assistant of a peripheral device;
a signal processor providing an algorithm and being configured in such a way that if the predefined activation command is recognized, a portion of the microphone signal representing the predefined activation command and a subsequent speech sequence is processed using the algorithm for a speech recognizer of the voice-controlled digital assistant, and carrying out speech recognition by said first speech recognizer, 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
a first transmission unit for transmitting a processed portion of the microphone signal to the peripheral device.