Patent ID: 8526648

Claim:
A system for providing hearing assistance to a user, comprising: an audio signal source, a transmission unit, adapted to be carried by a user at a distance from the user's ears, for transmitting audio signals from the audio signal source via a wireless right ear audio link to a right ear unit to be worn at or at least in part in a user's right ear, the unit for the right ear comprising a receiver unit and means for stimulating the user's right ear and via a wireless left ear audio link to a left ear unit to be worn at or at least in part in the user's left ear, the unit for the left ear comprising a receiver unit and means for stimulating the user's left ear, means for exchanging audio signals received from the transmission unit between the right ear unit and the left ear unit, means for detecting the qualitative excellence of the right ear link and of the left ear link and means for selecting, as a function of the detected the qualitative excellence of the right ear link and the left ear link, as input to the means for stimulating the user's right ear and the means for stimulating the user's left ear, at least one of the audio signals received by the respective receiver unit from the transmission unit, the audio signals received via the audio signal exchanging means, and mixtures thereof.