Patent ID: 7899194

Claim:
A method for voice communication, comprising: sensing at least one channel of audio information from within a first external auditory canal of a first user with a first non-occlusive earpiece; sensing at least one channel of audio information from within a second external auditory canal of the first user with a second non-occlusive earpiece; producing an outgoing stereophonic audio signal based on the at least one channel of audio information from the first external auditory canal and the at least one channel of audio information from the second external auditory canal; wirelessly transmitting the outgoing stereophonic audio signal; wirelessly receiving an incoming stereophonic audio signal; transducing a first channel of the incoming stereophonic audio signal at a first speaker proximate a first external auditory canal of a second user with a first non-occlusive earpiece; and transducing a second channel of the incoming stereophonic audio signal at a second speaker proximate a second external auditory canal of the second user with a second non-occlusive earpiece.