Patent ID: 8675900

Claim:
A hearing system comprising: a programmable sound processing means; an ear-level hearing device having an electro-acoustic transducer that communicates with an ear canal of a subject, and a transducer driven by the programmable sound processing means on a basis of a programmable sound processing scheme; a recording means that records a drive signal from said sound processing unit to said transducer; and a control device to customize said sound processing scheme at least in part to said subject, wherein, said control device comprises a temporary control device held by a user enabling the user to select auditory signals at different amplitudes, said control device and said ear-level hearing device are provided with communication means that communicate user selected auditory signals to said transducer, said recorder i) records the drive signal from the sound processing unit to said transducer for each of the selected auditory signal as a recording of the corresponding drive signals, and ii) provides the recording of the corresponding drive signals to said control device, said control device comprises an algorithm that, from said recording of the corresponding drive signals, translates threshold responses of said user in response to said auditory signals into a customized sound processing scheme, and said control device is provided with programming means that passes said customized sound processing scheme to said sound processing device.