Patent ID: 7853028

Claim:
A hearing aid system comprising: a hearing aid configured to be worn at an ear of a user; said hearing aid comprising a signal processor that is selectively configurable to operate with different settings respectively in different hearing environments, an earpiece connected to an output of the signal processor that emits an audible signal to the wearer corresponding to an electrical signal at the output of the signal processor, an externally-accessible hearing aid interface connected to the signal processor and allowing a user to manually select a hearing environment to which said signal processor is then set; a memory accessible by said signal processor, said memory having a plurality of different audio tone examples stored therein respectively for testing the different hearing environments to which the signal processor is configurable; and said signal processor, upon being set to one of said hearing environments by operation of said hearing aid user interface, being configured to access said memory to retrieve the audio tone example stored therein for the hearing environment to which the signal processor is set, and to cause the audio tone example to be audibly emitted by said earpiece to the user while said user operates said hearing aid interface to adjust the settings of the signal processor for the selected hearing environment.