Patent ID: 8369549

Claim:
A hearing aid comprising: a microphone to convert sounds into electrical signals; a memory to store a plurality of voice prints and a plurality of sound-shaping instructions, each of the plurality of sound-shaping instructions associated with one of the plurality of voice prints; a processor coupled to the microphone and the memory, the processor configured to compare at least one sample from the electrical signals to the plurality of voice prints to identify a voice print, the processor to select a first set of sound-shaping instructions associated with the voice print and to apply the first set of sound-shaping instructions to selectively shape a first portion of the electrical signals and to apply a second set of sound-shaping instructions to a second portion of the electrical signals, the first portion corresponding to the electrical signals associated with the voice print and the second portion associated with the reminder of the electrical signals, the second set of sound-shaping instructions being different than the first set of sound-shaping instructions; and a speaker coupled to the processor and configured to reproduce the shaped signal as an audible output.