Patent ID: 8873779

Claim:
A hearing apparatus, comprising: a signal processor, containing: at least two analysis facilities, each of said analysis facilities configured to obtain speech activity data on a basis of an audio signal received by the hearing apparatus, the audio signal being dependent on speaker activity of a wearer of the hearing apparatus; a fusion facility configured to receive the speech activity data from said analysis facilities and to identify, on a basis of the speech activity data, whether or not the wearer is currently speaking; at least one of said analysis facilities configured to determine, in dependence on the audio signal, values for a soft decision or for a probability as to whether the wearer is currently speaking; and at least one of said analysis facilities configured to perform a feature extraction and feature values are determined in dependence on the audio signal, the feature values being selected from the group consisting of a direction of incidence of an ambient sound, a gender of a speaker, a reverberation of the audio signal, spectral characteristics, spectral coefficients and cepstral coefficients.