Patent ID: 8654999

Claim:
A hearing aid comprising: a microphone to convert sound into electrical signals; a speaker to output audible sound; a processor; and a memory to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive a selection of a hearing aid profile from a plurality of hearing aid profiles, the selected hearing aid profile configured to modulate the electrical signals to a level to compensate for a hearing impairment of a user; apply a first one of a sequence of incremental hearing correction filters to the modulated electrical signals to produce a modulated output signal to reduce the amplitude of the modulated electrical signals produced by the selected hearing aid profile to a first level that is less than a level to compensate for the hearing impairment of the user; select a second one of the sequence of incremental hearing correction filters in response to receiving a trigger, the second one being designated to follow the first one in the sequence of incremental hearing correction filters and to reduce the amplitude of the modulated electrical signals produced by the selected hearing aid profile to a second level that is greater than the first level and less than the level to compensate for the hearing impairment of the user; and cause the speaker to output an alert when a final one of the sequence of incremental hearing correction filters is being applied, the final one being the last hearing correction filter of the sequence of incremental hearing correction filters.