Patent ID: 8155359

Claim:
A hearing system to facilitate voice transmissions in an environment when communication between hearing device wearers via their respective hearing devices is impeded by noise, comprising: a plurality of hearing devices adapted to process input signals from a surrounding environment in accordance with a respective wearer's hearing impairment, each hearing device comprising a microphone, a first remote control for controlling a first hearing device, wherein the first remote control, when logged on to by the plurality of hearing devices, further operates as a base station establishing a spontaneous communication network between and among the first hearing device and the hearing devices of further hearing device wearers, wherein the base station is adapted to receive via the communication network each respective wearer's own voice transmissions picked up by each respective wearer's own microphone, and then transmit via the communication network the voice transmissions between and among the first hearing device and the further hearing devices to then be processed into acoustic signals for the wearers of the hearing devices, rather than the hearing devices processing input signals from the surrounding environment that are impeded by noise.